SDN: Software Defined Networks

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