An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...

Software-defined networking, which seeks to do for networking hardware what virtualization does for servers, is getting closer to wide-scale deployment. In part, that's because the open-source ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) represents a paradigm shift in network management by decoupling the control plane from the data plane, thereby centralising network intelligence and enabling enhanced ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is transforming the network and giving network operators unprecedented network programmability, automation, and control. Network administrators are exploring it as it ...

Enterprise and university campus networks have enjoyed decades of architectural permanence. For years, these networks have been built with cookie cutter designs, with the only critical decision points ...

Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision ...

Today, as the IT environment continues to evolve, Software-Defined Networking appears to be the network architecture of the future, according to industry experts like Mills. While conventional ...

As is somewhat typical of emerging technologies, there isn’t a universally agreed to definition of what is meant by software defined networking (SDN). Over the last year or two most of the definitions ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

In this guest article, Gilad Shainer and Eitan Zahavi from Mellanox explore Infiniband networks and the benefits and potential of software-defined networking. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a ...

As nearly every other aspect of industrial technology goes digital, so too are industrial networks. And not just the communications that travel across these networks—which have long been digitized—but ...