Evolving SDN: Tackling Strategic, Technology, and Operational Challenges for Web-Scale Deployments

Software-defined networking has finally evolved to address key gaps plaguing businesses trying to capitalize on emerging cloud-enabled architectures. It offers a level of operational efficiency, interoperability, and scale thus far impossible in traditional network infrastructure. Innovations in pervasively networked software are enabling key innovations in virtualization, automation, and context-aware service delivery. Carriers and large enterprises in particular, are looking to deploy software that helps them modernize their networks to better support the onslaught of mobile, distributed, and data-intensive applications and cloud-enabled services necessary to compete. Key topics of discussion: What are the major market drivers for SDN? How are carriers and enterprises implementing SDN to enable distributed applications and cloud infrastructures? How can customers prepare for SDN, given the technology and marketplace is rapidly evolving? What are the key industry standards efforts and how do they differ? (IETF, ONF, NFV, etc.) Request Free!