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 ...

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 ...

On March 16, the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF) was launched by companies in the networking and communications industries. The forum consists of several network test-equipment makers, network ...

Examine almost any emerging trend in the way people work, IT departments deliver applications or companies collect and process business information, and it'll translate into increasing pressure on ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...