Re: Software Defined Networks

[Jennifer Rexford <jrex () cs princeton edu>]

SDN is definitely an overloaded and confusing term that is used inconsistently.  Here are a few attempts to explain:

- “The Road to SDN: An Intellectual History of Programmable Networks” (ACM Queue, December 2013)
  https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327 <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327>

- “Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks” (CACM, October 2014)
   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf 
<http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf>

- “From Ethane to SDN and Beyond” (ACM SIGCOMM CCR, October 2019)
   https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/acmdl19-347.pdf 
<https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/acmdl19-347.pdf>

— Jen


> On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:56 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com> wrote:
>
> Can someone explain what is all the fuss? SDN is like the latest telecom craze but the articles do a poor job of 
> explaining the advantages. I seek concrete examples. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> Roderick. 
>
>
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