For decades, networks have been built on the same fundamental principle: dedicated hardware appliances for each network function. Need a firewall? Buy a box. Need load balancing? Purchase another ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) represents a paradigm shift in network management by decoupling the control plane from the data plane, thereby centralising network intelligence and enabling enhanced ...

One of the most common questions a startup hears these days is, “Are you a network functions virtualization (NFV), network virtualization (NV) or software-defined-networking (SDN) shop?” Each time ...

Anurag Saxena is a lead/principal software quality engineer at Red Hat and specializes in open-source software solutions. With over 15 years of experience in networking technologies, he manages the ...

Different types of SDN are simply points along the evolution from current networking to future networking. The networking industry is struggling to understand what Software Defined Networking (SDN) is ...