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Alan Weissberger Software Defined Network

2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

The ONS banner for the Open Network Summit 2016.
The ONS banner for the Open Network Summit 2016.

Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes.  Overlay networks (a logical network mapped […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Software Defined Network

NTT Com Leads all Network Providers in Deployment of SDN/OpenFlow; NFV Coming Soon

Diagram of how NTT Com is helping customer Yamaha Motor reduce ICT costs via cloud migration.
Diagram of how NTT Com is helping customer Yamaha Motor reduce ICT costs via cloud migration.

Introduction: While AT&T has gotten a lot of press for its announced plans to use Software Defined Networking (SDN) to revamp its core network, another large global carrier has been quietly deploying SDN/OpenFlow for almost two years and soon plans to launch Network Function Virtualization (NFV) into its WAN. NTT Communications (NTT-Com) is using an […]