Pitt discusses the emergence of 5G and what SDNs role will be in its deployment. The next frontier of mobile is approaching with operators gearing up to deploy 5G mobile connectivity, and SDN will play a key role in unlocking its full capabilities. In my recent Light Reading article, I go into further detail of […]
Software-Defined Networking: The New Norm for Networks Executive Summary Traditional network architectures are ill-suited to meet the requirements of today’s enterprises, carriers, and end users. Thanks to a broad industry effort spearheaded by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Software- Defined Networking (SDN) is transforming networking architecture. In the SDN architecture, the control and data planes […]
I recently had a conversation with industry analyst Nick Lippis about why SDN represents such a fundamental change in networking, one we have not seen in a long time. Nick likes to think about Networking Epochs and we related them to Computing Epochs, counting and matching three of each:
