SDN: Software Defined Networks: An Authoritative Review of Network Programmability Technologies

by Thomas Nadeau, Ken Gray

Explore the emerging definitions, protocols, and standards for SDN―software-defined, software-driven, programmable networks―with this comprehensive guide. Two senior network engineers show you what’s required for building networks that use software for bi-directional communication between applications and the underlying network infrastructure. This vendor-agnostic book also presents several SDN use cases, including bandwidth scheduling and manipulation, input traffic and triggered actions, as well as some interesting use cases around big data, data center overlays, and network-function virtualization. Discover how enterprises and service providers alike are pursuing SDN as it continues to evolve.

382 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2013

Reviews

[Eyal Baruch · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is more of a description of what is available when the book was published and did not have a really good discussion of the technology and what you can achieve with it.

[Erik Neel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Full of errors. Parts are copy-pastes from wikipedia. Poor figures. Positive is that it list a bunch of subjects used in SDN.

[Scott Munjone]

Putting on the back burner

[Calvin Christopher]

always fun dedicating time to a new technology, unfortunately this bird doesn't fly