The latest version of this semantic fiasco is software-defined networks vs. network virtualization. Even though I’ve been writing about it for a while – as long as it’s been around ...

chief among them Network Virtualization (NV), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Software Defined Networking (SDN). The alphabet soup may seem overwhelming at first, but each of these ...

Furthermore, it's "an emerging architecture that is dynamic ... Figure 1. Comparing server virtualization with software-defined networking. With that separation of network planes, network ...

When it comes to software-defined networking ... "They’re going to a cloud provider for virtual infrastructure. They’re going to a separate network provider for the network components of ...

A management plane may not necessarily be a bad thing, but in actual SDN architecture ... Software-defined networking today is precisely this. Over the last 22 years, "machines" have become ...

One of the biggest questions so far, it seems, is where the channel fits into the chatter and hype surrounding so-called software-defined ... the large networking vendors, network virtualization ...

Software-defined networking (SDN ... The difference is that SDN as a network solution is not nearly as far along as virtualization in the server and storage worlds. Nevertheless, SDN is coming ...

Through the software-defined data center, VMware said it would extend the benefits of virtualization to all areas of the data center: network, security, storage, and management. As part of that ...

Software-defined ... "disaggregated networking." See DOR. The primary applications of SDN have been in wide area network (WAN) traffic engineering, datacenter network virtualization and monitoring.