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• BT joins pack offering new SD-WAN services

  BT today launched a new software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service aimed at large organisations.

• 3 tech leaders reveal challenges amidst industry change: CeBIT panel

  Don’t focus on the “elephant in the room” when dealing with decommissioning legacy systems, suggested ASX general manager of application development and devops, Katherine Squire.

• SDN is evolutionary, not revolutionary

  The need to support increasingly complex and virtualised environments with greater agility is driving considerable change in data networking. Read why new software-defined architectures are a key to evolving in the digital world.

• Big Switch aims to control the cloud with SDN product

  Big Switch Networks this week is unveiling an SDN controller designed to bring Google-like hyperscale networking to enterprises.

• Brocade lays off 300 to pursue SDNs

  SDN is taking a toll on Brocade.

• What CIOs need to know about software defined networking

  Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualisation to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualisation may still be too immature for prime time.

• NetSocket shifts gears from managing unified communications to enabling software defined networks

  NetSocket this week shifted gears from monitoring the
  quality of unified communications applications to enabling software defined
  networks, with an initial focus on automating tuning in order to accommodate business
  performance policies.

• SDN: The core building blocks

  When getting to know software defined networking, you'll encounter a number of terms that are used in conjunction with the technology. Some of the terms are unique to SDN, while others describe technologies that, while not unique, are frequently used in SDN designs.

• SDN FAQ

  Software has been programming our networks for a long time, so how is SDN different?

• 12 tips for SDN IT buyers

  Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision the network, improve quality of service, reduce operational costs and make networks more secure.

• The time is now for 'Open Ethernet'

  In today's data center you need to be able to add services and hardware without compromising network performance, but the flexibility to tune the network to meet business needs is also mandatory.

• SDN coming ... soon

  Software defined networking was a hot topic at the recent Interop conference in Las Vegas, where enthusiasm for the emerging technology overpowered any lingering doubts.

• The birth of the network function virtualization (NFV) ISV community

  A key requirement for the success of the nascent network functions virtualization (NFV) market is the emergence of an independent software community to drive innovation in telecom software. At the recent Open Network Summit (ONS) event there was significant activity around NFV, including a number of smaller suppliers demonstrating products.

• Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

  SDNs aren't just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry.

• OpenDaylight: the next Penguin?

  It seems to be passe to be solid these days. The latest example of this is the just-announced OpenDaylight project, in which a bunch of the biggest names in computing and networking have gotten together to push an open source development effort to support software-defined (i.e., virtual) networking under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.