Software Defined Network

Software-defined networking is one of the biggest topics in the network industry today. But how true is the adage that “software eats hardware”?

At Cisco Live 2015, one thing was made clear: the pace of technological change in business is accelerating. Companies must move faster, or be left behind.

Networking professionals, don’t miss Terry Slattery’s talks on SDN and building networks for real-time applications at Interop Las Vegas.

Using SDN APIs for Communications and

Let’s talk about Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN. I do want to start by considering the general state of SDN. Briefly. A Word about the State of SDN When will Software [...]

Tagging network elements simplifies network management. What are Tags? I wrote a blog a few years ago, Device and Interface Tagging, in which I described the use of tags to [...]

Will containers replace VMs in the near future? How would that impact networking? Containers? Containers are lightweight application instances that run in servers without the need for a full VM. [...]

I recently had the pleasure of attending the http://opennetworkingusergroup.com. My thanks go to page dedicated to ONUG, where you can find links to blogs posted by the other attendees. I won’t repeat [...]

On Sunday afternoon 5/4/2014 I’ll be heading to New York City. I’ll be joining some of the Tech Field Day bloggers extraordinaire on Monday and Tuesday 5/5-6/2014, for HP Networking, [...]

The third in the series on SDN monitoring (Monitoring a Software Defined Network, Part 3) talks about the management system architecture. What factors drive the placement of monitoring system components? [...]

I am doing a 3-hour workshop on SDN at Enterprise Connect 2014 in Orlando, Florida, March 19, 2014. The session is titled “Powering Enterprise Communications with Software-Defined Networks (SDNs).” There [...]

Monitoring an SDN is going to be an interesting proposition. I wrote about the first part of monitoring and management in Monitoring a Software Defined Network, Part 1. I talk [...]