SDN - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Australian network engineers must skill up, or the industry risks falling behind

  In Australia and New Zealand, like most markets around the world, traditional networking vendors with legacy "lock-in" technologies have dominated the networking segment.

• Get ready for cognitive networking

  Separate announcements from optical networking vendors Ciena and Infinera bring the vision of a cognitive network one step closer.

• VirtuTel eyes SDN to build self-service network

  VirtuTel is harnessing OpenFlow to build an online portal that will allow its customers to order services and then have them automatically provisioned from within the wholesaler's network.

• An Aussie company is building the world's smallest SDN switch

  Australian company Northbound Networks has designed what it says is the world's smallest OpenFlow-capable switch.

• Enterprise disaggregation is inevitable

  Back in March, the issue was raised whether disaggregation -- decoupling network software from hardware for choice and flexibility -- could play in the enterprise as well as the service provider realm.

• SDN: The emerging reality

  Change is still afoot in Software Defined Networking, but it is now at least clear that SDN is here to stay, that SDN will be the way we build networks going forward. In this Network World Spotlight special report, pulled together by the editors of Network World, we analyze key developments and gauge where organizations stand today in their SDN planning.

• Big Switch Networks CTO Rob Sherwood on SDN in 2015: The Time is now

  I recently had the chance to sit down with Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks to get his insight on whats hot with SDN for 2015.

• Incremental SDN: Automating Network Device Configuration

  The definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to broaden, today including functions such as configuration automation and orchestration. While these tasks aren't strictly SDN, the fact is software is used to define some aspect of the network infrastructure in both cases, so vendors have stretched the definition of SDN to bring configuration automation and orchestration platforms into the mix. In fairness, the line gets blurry, as some modern orchestration systems use programmatic interfaces to provision the network instead of traditional configuration tools such as SSH or SNMP.

• Impact of today's hardware and software applications in Cloud-based environments: Part 1

  As an industry, we have been looking at cloud-based technologies both from private and public structure and how best to optimize design, engineer and develop such technologies to better optimize the world of wireless and the Internet of Everything.

• Inside Cisco's private Cloud

  Do private Clouds work? You bet they do, says Cisco, which has more than two years of experience under its belt with its Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (CITEIS) Cloud. 
  

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