Network software defined and virtualization concepts are transforming the way networks are designed, deployed, and managed. They enable network innovation and differentiation by providing more ...

The effects of this obfuscation are clear. According to Amy-jo Crowley’s recent article in CBR Online, aptly entitled UK Firms Struggle to Grasp Software-Defined Networking, “a survey of 200 ...

VMware positions its networking virtualization platform, NSX, as a component of the software-defined datacenter. "In contrast to SDN, in which hardware remains the driving force, VMware network ...

Network virtualization gives each "tenant" in a data center its own network topology and control over its traffic flow. Software-defined networking offers a standard interface between controller ...

Understanding the differences between Software Defined Networking, network virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization by Steve Garrison, VP of Marketing, Pica8, special to Network World ...

Software defined networks can overcome this problem and a solution based on exploring OpenFlow (OF) as architecture for mobile network virtualization has been proposed. We investigate two network ...

Now that server, storage, application, and data virtualization is underway at many organizations, networks are poised as the next great frontier of abstraction. Enter software-defined networking ...

Software-defined WAN blends some SDN concepts in enterprise WAN strategy. SDN enables network virtualization to segment different virtual networks within a single physical network or to bring together ...

(See Figure 1.) Furthermore, it's "an emerging architecture that is dynamic, manageable, cost-effective and adaptable, making it ideal for the high-bandwidth, dynamic nature of today's applications." ...