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 ...

U.S. firms are moving from conventional to software-defined networks for resilience, simpler management and distributed ...

SDN is often thought of as the abstraction of the networking control plane, or the system that decides where traffic flows across a network, from the networking data plane, which is the system that ...

VMware NSX does for networks and physical network components what virtual machines did for data centers and physical servers. It allows you to use them in very different and more flexible ways. In ...