Brief speeches were made and insider tours were given prior to a performance by Pablo Heras-Casado leading the Orchestra of St.

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OpenFlow startups include Big Switch Networks and Nicira Networks, co-founded by Casado, who serves as the chief technology officer there.

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Mr. McKeown along with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker founded Nicira to commercialize the technology with a focus on large commercial data centers like Rackspace.

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The protocol, which was initially conceived by a graduate student at Stanford University named Martin Casado, represents a new way to control network switches and routers that has come to be known as software defined networking, or SDN.

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Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).

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