Network monitoring typically takes but cannot give — it reads data from the network, but can't instruct the network on how to improve, at least not in any timely

Answering his own question from 18 months ago, contributor David Lenrow looks at where the SDN controller has gone and is going, now that OpenDaylight and open-source development are

What are the network requirements to support NFV? The ETSI group defining NFV set that question aside at first, but some clear patterns are emerging in terms of service-provider

Sharon Barkai of startup ConteXtream found a good amount of SDN information being presented at Sigcomm recently. He gives a rundown of talks that covered fault tolerance, elastic controllers,

Your favorite load-balancing algorithms might lose their effectiveness as more workloads move to the cloud. A smarter take on traffic management is in order.

What's going on inside the ETSI NFV group, and who are these guys, anyway? In this first of a series of posts about NFV, Marc Cohn discusses the group's

The NSX announcement for software-defined networking (SDN) sure got a lot of attention, but is the product all that necessary?

Optical networking can help scale a data center, but the optical part faces scaling challenges of its own. UC San Diego has been working on that by taking a

Software defined networking's the craze of the networking industry. Who knew Katy Perry was also connected to the SDN Networking phenomena. More on SDNCentral

Virtualize It and They Shall Come: SDN and WAN Orchestration

Reaching NFV’s Full Potential: It’s All About Communication Processors

Knitting NFV Together Using SDN (and More)

NFV Group Flocks to Proof-of-Concept Demos

The SDN Dial Tone -- What Network Virtualization Should Do

Campus Network Virtualization using an SDN Approach with a focus on slicing/traffic isolation lends itself to two main approaches, both of which have advantages over VRF-based legacy solution. Find

Does Network Lifecycle Management Make Sense?

SDN: Who Does the Programming? And What Is The Level Of Abstraction We Need?

Who would want to pick an end-to-end solution and get locked into it, only to see the industry move in a different direction?

Six Campus Networks SDN Use Cases That You Need to Know About

Are We Now In The Post-OpenFlow SDN Wave?

Much Ado About SDN Controller Platforms

Bob Lynch, Head of Advanced Development of Overture, discusses potential OpenFlow scale limits and possible solutions. Learn more about how to achieve SDN scalability with OpenFlow.

Is SDN For Real? And If So, What Is It? By Sunil Khandekar

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