Software Defined Networks: Is the Technology Catching Up with the Hype?

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IT Connection Blog by Mike Spanbauer

Summary Bullets:

  • SDN may have begun academically focused on enterprise LAN needs, but carrier interest is intense and driving innovation as well.
  • More SDN solutions are materializing out of powerpoints and into reality today, with some creative and innovative answers to challenging problems in the past – but when will adoption begin to accelerate?

SDN may be the most exciting networking technology since the advent of Internet Protocol (IP).  At its most fundamental, the concept of SDN provides a construct by which we can discuss the implementation of services within the fabric of the network itself.  Whether this be decentralized routing & flow tables or the abstraction of more advanced network services that are embedded within the network intelligence itself. Read more at http://bit.ly/UYRizd

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