Software-defined everything, including software-defined networking, is taking hold in the commercial sector. It’s also starting to break through with IT leaders at state and local government agencies.

Talkin' Bout An SDN Revolution? One of the biggest questions so far, it seems, is where the channel fits into the chatter and hype surrounding so-called software-defined networking (SDN). Between ...

An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...

The phrase software-defined networking (SDN) was coined when it was necessary to distinguish the concept from the hardware-based variety. Since that time, "SDN" has come to mean the type of dynamic ...

Learn about 3 different models of a software-defined access network (SDAN) and how it can be applied to any access technology including the SDN framework. So far, SDN control has referred to the ...

Software-defined networking, which seeks to do for networking hardware what virtualization does for servers, is getting closer to wide-scale deployment. In part, that's because the open-source ...

As part of its tactical network modernization strategy, the Army has begun development, integration and Soldier-driven assessments to determine whether integrating commercial off-the-shelf solutions ...

Is software-defined networking (SDN) ready to be adopted in a big way in the enterprise? It’s been slow going so far, but there are signs things are changing. Plenty of suppliers in the network space ...

Google, an early backer of software-defined networking and OpenFlow, shared some details at the recent Open Networking Summit about how the company is using the technology to link 12 worldwide data ...