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 ...

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 ...

To me, a network would be something where information flows in multiple directions, where there is osmosis, where there is exchange of thoughts and ideas, where there is knowledge of other components ...