This week in the SDxCentral Weekly Roundup: ODL welcomes new members, PLUMgrid makes announcements during OpenStack Summit, Brocade and Pica8 bring in new talent.

Brocade has been amassing SDN talent and talking big about open networking. Now the company is producing an OpenDaylight controller to go along with its OpenStack framework.

Yet another notable hire comes to Brocade: Colin Dixon, one of the big names in OpenDaylight. It's part of Brocade's conscious effort to become a bigger force in OpenDaylight

The Brocade SDN army continues to grow. The latest recruit is Kevin Woods, who headed up Cisco's onePK initiative and helped organize the company's cross-department SDN strategy.

For the second time in a month, a lead engineer from Juniper is joining Brocade's team. Tom Nadeau, who helped literally write the book on SDN, will lead a

It's been a year of big change for Big Switch. In explaining the recent turmoil, co-founder Kyle Forster says the company has dropped plans for overlay networks and started

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