IoT Needs Security-Enabled Networks with SDN

InMon president Peter Phaal shares his thoughts on the power of Open Switching Platforms and the Software Defined Data Center.

CSPs need to begin preparing now. Here are five steps needed to secure your transition to this new virtualized environment.

When we speak with network operators, we hear angst. What does this mean for 2015? Here’s our 2015 SDN Predictions to reduce the angst.

In the WAN, where the optical transport network plays a key role, SDN is now beginning to emerge as a new technology tool that offers the promise of managing

OpenStack is not enough. NFV needs an app-centric architecture that includes monitoring and supports containers that go beyond Docker.

Explore why virtualizing a self-organinzing network (SON) is beneficial to operator to deploy SON on top of NFV for optimal network management and why self-organizing networks’ true home is

Take a deeper look at MPLS-TP OAM and new extensions needed to OpenFlow as we pave the way to carrier grade software-defined networking.

What can a network engineer learn from DevOps to improve their work? Here are seven DevOps practices that are potentially valuable for IT professionals.

SDN and NFV, if fully realized, can benefit carriers, but that's only part of the story. Real-time visibility is critical to successful SDN and NFV rollouts and a key

For most networking professionals getting familiar with DevOps, the tooling framework consists primarily of deployment and provisioning tools like Chef and Puppet. But the continuum of DevOps tools spans

A DevOps methodology can result in a more resilient development environment. The testing of network changes, for example, could be moved away from a brute-force routine to something more

Pay-per-use models aren't practical for many mobile operators due to the operational complexity involved. Here's how a service-aware network using SDN and NFV could help.

DevOps is about the expression of the system as source code. But networking does not have universal, vendor-agnostic descriptions for VLANs or even routes. Abstractions play a key role

With the advent of network functions virtualization (NFV), let's step back and remember that carrier-grade networking is a daunting task, one that goes beyond the tenet of high availability.

The major advantage of a logically centralized control plane is improved data visualization which makes intelligent decisions about how to use that resource in support of the applications and

Small projects that get big can quickly get out of hand. Here's one coder's experience in fixing that problem by using a message bus and, in the process, developing

Network programmability is the key to SDN and a means of unleashing the network's power to create a faster, more flexible, intelligent infrastructure. By optimizing network resources, dynamic programs

Yes, SDN can help the broadband network, too. It's a matter of measuring consumption in real-time by taking telemetry data and exerting policy control on the fly — things

Where is ATCA's place in an NFV world? The platform-level standard for telecom hardware is not made obsolete by NFV's use of standard chips; in fact, ATCA still has

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

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

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 Infinite Bandwidth Mean You Don’t Need SDN?