Scaling the Virtual Network
SDN can take you where no network has gone before, but you may have to rethink the forwarding table.
SDN can take you where no network has gone before, but you may have to rethink the forwarding table.
Despite widespread recognition that wide area networks will play a vital role in the move to distributed architectures, few enterprises seem willing to shore up their own infrastructure.
Open source and open standards are becoming increasingly important in the SDN sphere, but openness isn't a magic bullet.
Many enterprises are bent on deploying hybrid clouds in the coming year, but how should they be networked?
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?