Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

In the grand scheme of things, the true value of software defined networking lies not in what it is, but what it does.

Vendors gathered on the Open Networking Summit expo floor to showcase software defined networking solutions. Here are six that caught our eye.

Microsoft data center networking and platform expert talks vendor missteps in the software defined era and points the way toward innovation and success.

Networking vendor pushes "profit-based policy generation" and server-on-a-switch SDN and NFV platform.

VMware's Martin Casado defines network virtualization and discusses more use cases.

Dan Pitt of the Open Networking Foundation makes an announcement, and ONS 2014 keynote speakers make the case for open source SDN.

A month after the release of OpenDaylight Hydrogen, the OpenDaylight open source SDN project gives some new details about Helium.

Not all those vendors claiming to do Software Defined Networking are actually doing it.

Vendor announces portfolio-wide OpenFlow 1.3 support, discusses Cisco's "SDN-washing."

SDN can take you where no network has gone before, but you may have to rethink the forwarding table.

New capabilities and configurations claim to address data capture and security concerns at every enterprise budget.

Also at Mobile World Congress, Alcatel-Lucent announced partnerships with Intel and Telefonica around NFV.

New management software and a new controller debut as Juniper accelerates its efforts to bring service providers into the Software Defined Networking Era.

PwC acquisitions and deals report identifies commoditization, convergence as deal influencers in 2014.

Cisco expands virtualized network services for service providers.

Red Hat's OpenStack platform underpins Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand solution.

Open source and open standards are becoming increasingly important in the SDN sphere, but openness isn't a magic bullet.

With Brocade income on the rise, execs talk SDN strategy, have a few choice words about Cisco.

CEO Doug Murray says Big Switch's shift toward physical and virtual networks on bare metal switches gives it an edge in the competitive SDN space.

Many enterprises are bent on deploying hybrid clouds in the coming year, but how should they be networked?

OpenDaylight technical committee talks about what's likely to be included in the second major release of the OpenDaylight open source SDN platform.

What are the capital and operational benefits of software defined networking, and how is the enterprise to know if it's getting its money's worth?

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, explains why OpenDaylight, like Linux, will succeed.

Open source effort yields the core elements of a new Software Defined Networking platform.

Juniper Networks claims promising developments with its open source OpenContrail SDN controller.