An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Most people recognize a network disruption when they see one—you tend to notice if your internet goes out or you lose cell service—but ...

SDN is often thought of as the abstraction of the networking control plane, or the system that decides where traffic flows across a network, from the networking data plane, which is the system that ...

Fremont, Calif. — The Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF) carrier networking group has agreed a Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) specification for the establishment and control of automatic ...

When planning a wireless network installation, be sure to carefully assess and resolve risks. Otherwise unforeseen implications, such as RF interference, poor performance, and security holes will ...

Jim participated in a recent Network World online chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. The way these chats work is that for an hour Network World readers type ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research tackles how to define a network in the second of a series of four articles that present a complete end-to-end production-quality example of binary ...