evilviper writes:
"According to industry analysts, the reduced sales of traditional switching/routing heavyweights, during this traditionally active time, is due to widespread corporate investments and trials of software defined networking (SDN) equipment, which promises to improve routing efficiency, network management, and dramatically reduce hardware costs. Industry heavyweights like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others are already heavily invested in OpenFlow and SDN, but it seems to be taking hold on a much wider scale, and not just in ultra-massive data centers."
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Tuesday March 18 2014, @02:02AM
I think this software defined networking has major implications for security. Der Spiegel writes [spiegel.de]:
and
So maybe SDN will allow networks to fragment like Linux distros, and combined with security technology and sophisticated traffic handling, SDN might change the game for this kind of malware and hopefully give us a powerful new weapon against spying