Explore the emerging definitions, protocols,and standards for SDN—software-defined, software-driven, programmablenetworks—with this comprehensive guide. Two senior network engineers show youwhat’s required for building networks that use software for bi-directionalcommunication between applications and the underlying network infrastructure.
This vendor-agnostic book also presents several SDN use cases, includingbandwidth scheduling and manipulation, input traffic and triggered actions, aswell as some interesting use cases around big data, data center overlays, andnetwork-function virtualization. Discover how enterprises and service providersalike are pursuing SDN as it continues to evolve.
Explore the current state of the OpenFlow model and centralized network control
Delve into distributed and central control, including data plane generation
Examine the structure and capabilities of commercial and open source controllers
Survey the available technologies for network programmability
Trace the modern data center from desktop-centric to highly distributed models
Discover new ways to connect instances of network-function virtualization and service chaining
Get detailed information on constructing and maintaining an SDN network topology
Examine an idealized SDN framework for controllers, applications, and ecosystems
