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 ...

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 ...

Future networks will be defined by software. In contrast to a wired network, the software defined wireless network (SDWN) experiences more challenges due to the fast-changing wireless channel ...

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

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 ...

Learn whether you need to simply add software as an overlay to your existing network or implement network services on virtual machines. Understand the differences between SDN and proprietary APIs ...

Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant ...

Last week, at a Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors, VMware presented its strategy on the growing importance of the software-defined data center (SDDC) by saying the move from the physical ...

(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." ...