In today's networking world, there is a dire shortage of traditional networking capabilities. SDN offers a separation of data and control planes, increases the granularity of the data control, simplifies the network equipment, the integration with management systems and OSS/BSS. This automates and accelerates the development of new services.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 Data centers
• 1.1.1 The new computing paradigm
• 1.1.2 DC network architecture
• 1.1.3 Traffic in DC
• 1.1.4 Addressing and routing in DC
• 1.1.5 Performance
• 1.1.6 TCP/IP stack issues
• 1.1.7 Network management system
• 1.1.8 Virtualization, scalability, flexibility
• 1.2 Software-defined networks
• 1.2.1 How can we split control plane and data plane?
• 1.2.2 OpenFlow protocol and programmable switching: basics
• 1.2.3 SDN controller, northbound API, controller applications
• 1.2.4 Open issues and challenges
• 1.3 Summary and conclusion
• References

Inspec keywords: software defined networking

Other keywords: network equipment; SDN; management systems; control planes; OSS-BSS; data separation; data control

Subjects: Computer networks and techniques; Computer communications