Category Archives: SDN Engineering

Orchestration and Controllers – The key to making your Software Defined Network Operate

Written by datavision | November 7, 2014

In our previous series of Blogs and emails, we have been discussing a lot about the advantages of Software Defined Networking, as well as the use and advantages of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The next aspect to consider, when it comes to actually operating a network that makes use of SDN technology, is orchestration. Orchestration…

SDN In The Enterprise, Solving Real Problems, Part 2: Understanding Critical SDN Enterprise Architecture Considerations

Written by datavision | October 24, 2014
SDN enterprise architecture

In the first blog in this series, we looked at several issues that still prevail in the enterprise wide-area network (WAN) despite advances in hardware and software technologies and products. Those issues include branch/remote appliance bloat, complex security and compliance conformance, application performance, WAN configuration management, and operational and management complexities, which raise CapEx and…