Demystifying SDN: Open SDN Approach
Demystifying SDN: Open SDN Approach By Javier Guillermo - Principal Consultant - September 16, 2017 The joke goes around that the true meaning of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is “Still Don’t Know”. In short, SDN is a technology that allows network administrators to no longer be reliant on static architecture of traditional hardware/networks, but freed to centrally and dynamically manage the network via open, programmatic interfaces. This is accomplished by separating the control plane (the system that decides where the network traffic will go) from the data plane (the systems that forward the traffic onto their destination). Software Defined Networking (SDN): Business Drivers What’s driving the need to change from the transitional method of managing networks and move towards a SDN approach? There are three key catalysts in the industry driving the need for network change as show in the graphic below. Mobility, cloud, and IoT are three very real way