I’ve been in network management a long time. Long enough to know that it ain’t sexy, and likely never will be perceived as sexy. My only dream is to at least get it moved from a cost center to a ...

SDN management tools include TAP monitoring applications and network packet brokers (NPB), which negotiate network traffic from multiple SPAN ports and manipulate it to allow more efficient use of ...

Software-Defined Networking may trump the less-dynamic NCCM approach for keeping your network and applications coordinated. A number of writers have suggested that the primary function of Software ...

Extreme Networks this week lifted the curtain on a new software-defined networking (SDN) architecture and management software that lets partners manage both Extreme technologies, and those gained ...

Bob Kimball is Chief Technical Officer, Ciena Government Solutions. More than simply a hot topic in optical networking, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is quickly becoming the single best way for ...

Although SDN controllers provide the means to change network configurations through software, it is clear that they lack management intelligence. In other words, to build networks that can adapt ...

Sandra Gittlen is a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. For Dave Sandum, it’s not a matter of if software-defined networking will become the norm ...

SDN, NFT, and network virtualization are all new terms that are sometimes used interchangeably, but they each have different meanings, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest ...

Cloud services are evolving, but they need SDN's centralized management and global network visibility for truly next-level deployments In the span of one month, Google acquired Orbitera and announced ...

For as long as I’ve been covering technology – and I’ve long since passed my silver anniversary – I’ve always been able to rely on the IT double take that comes with any advancement: “This is really ...

EIGHTY FOUR, PA.—Internet protocol technologies developed and implemented globally are now found in equipment rooms and network applications for broadcast. We’re at the cusp of seeing just how ...