Software-defined networking: a path to programmable networks
14:00-16:00
Chair: Ananda Rajagopal, Brocade Senior Director - Product Management & Product Marketing, Service Providers
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is currently one of the most promising and disruptive emerging networking technologies. For service providers prepare to offer new services over the cloud, the network infrastructure needs to support flexibility for customization and facilities to enable automation for accelerating the velocity of service delivery. SDN has the potential to accelerate network innovation and create choice, thus helping realize new capabilities and overcoming some of the current limitations of networking. Of particular interest is the ability to make the network infrastructure “programmable”, whereby changes from service requests can be rapidly translated into the underlying network infrastructure. The session will provide an overview of SDN, the key technologies that are part of SDN—OpenFlow and OpenStack—and explain Brocade’s solutions for SDN. The session will cover 3 key use cases for SDN—building hyper-scale data centers, network virtualization, and flow management in the WAN.
