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Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Few technologies have captured the networking world's imagination as vividly as software defined networking (SDN), and few technologies have the potential to change the data center as dramatically. But few technologies are as confusing, either. Need to make sense of OpenFlow and OpenDaylight, or learn what major vendors like Cisco and Juniper and startups like Plexxi and PLUMgrid are doing in the space? Want to know what business value the abstraction of the control plane from the data plane can bring? Let Enterprise Networking Planet keep you up to date on the latest in software defined networking news.

Juniper Networks Contrail Service Orchestration Enables SD-WAN as a Service

By Sean Michael Kerner | Apr 11, 2019

Software Defined efforts head to the cloud as Juniper rolls out new capabilities.

Juniper CEO Is Optimistic About Enterprise Networking Growth Potential

By Sean Michael Kerner | Feb 8, 2019

Juniper is gearing up to launch a number of new products over the course of 2019.

When DevOps Turns into NetOps

By Arthur Cole | Dec 14, 2018

Network engineers will have to learn to function as part of a development and operational team going forward.

Ubuntu Fan Aims to Simply Container Networking

By Sean Michael Kerner | Oct 29, 2018

VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux talks about the hidden gem in his Linux distribution's networking toolkit.

Juniper Networks Engineering Simplicity for the Multicloud Era

By Sean Michael Kerner | Oct 19, 2018

At its NXTWORK 2018 event, Juniper's executive management lay out a strategy for the next evolution of networking.

Juniper Expands Its Edge Networking Ambitions

By Sean Michael Kerner | Sep 18, 2018

As 5G and the reality of Edge Networking nears, Juniper is aiming for a slice of the market with is new Contrail Edge Cloud

OpenDaylight Advances Open Source Software Defined Networking in Fluorine Release

By Sean Michael Kerner | Sep 13, 2018

Ninth release of Linux Foundation's SDN effort improves security, service function chaining and IP transport.

Kontron Acquires Inocybe Technologies to Boost Cloud Native Networking Stack

By Sean Michael Kerner | Aug 3, 2018

Hardware vendor picks up one of the leading contributors to the open source OpenDayLight SDN controller.

HPE Acquires Plexxi to Expand SDN Vision

By Sean Michael Kerner | May 15, 2018

Hewlett Packard Enterprise picks up hyperconverged network platform vendor to build a single compute storage and networking data fabric.

Nutanix Gets Into SDN with Flow

By Sean Michael Kerner | May 14, 2018

Cloud computing vendor Nutanix announced its' own Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology to help enable application centric computing.

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