TAP Into Technology Blog: Software Defined Networking (SDN) (2)
Garland Partners with Edgecore for End-to-End Visibility Solutions
We recently partnered with Edgecore, a leading provider of open networking solutions of bare-metal hardware switches and access products, which utilize both independent commercial and open source software options. These include...
The Controller Problem in Software-Defined Networking
It was great to see our technology partner, Big Switch Netw orks , included in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking . After years of using the Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) as a network packet broker/Trojan horse to...
Ready for SDN End-to-End Visibility?
It’s here. An SDN, End-to-End Visibility Solution. It has everything, that everyone’s talked about for SDN deployments: it’s flexible, scalable and cost effective. Why is the time for SDN now? Because 5G networks are coming, and they are...
What's the State of SDN?
It feels like there have been two extremes in software-defined networking (SDN) discussions over the last few years. On one side, you have people who focus on the fact that SDN hasn’t lived up to its early hype. And on the other side, you...
Network TAPs or Packet Brokers for Software-Defined Networks?
Centralized, programmatic control of the network—this was the major promise software-defined networking (SDN) offered when it first emerged. We’re getting there, but if the last few years have shown us anything it’s that realizing lofty...
How Feasible is SDN in 2017?
Whether it’s the proliferation of cloud applications or growing cybersecurity demands, data centers are being forced to change faster than ever. Pushing 1G or even 10G architectures to their limits won’t work moving forward. That’s why SDN...