Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach

by Paul Goransson, Chuck Black, Timothy Culver

Software Defined A Comprehensive Approach, Second Edition provides in-depth coverage of the technologies collectively known as Software Defined Networking (SDN). The book shows how to explain to business decision-makers the benefits and risks in shifting parts of a network to the SDN model, when to integrate SDN technologies in a network, and how to develop or acquire SDN applications.

In addition, the book emphasizes the parts of the technology that encourage opening up the network, providing treatment for alternative approaches to SDN that expand the definition of SDN as networking vendors adopt traits of SDN to their existing solutions.

Since the first edition was published, the SDN market has matured, and is being gradually integrated and morphed into something more compatible with mainstream networking vendors. This book reflects these changes, with coverage of the OpenDaylight controller and its support for multiple southbound protocols, the Inclusion of NETCONF in discussions on controllers and devices, expanded coverage of NFV, and updated coverage of the latest approved version (1.5.1) of the OpenFlow specification.

Contains expanded coverage of controllers Includes a new chapter on NETCONF and SDN Presents expanded coverage of SDN in optical networks Provides support materials for use in computer networking courses

Genres: Technical, Technology

412 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2014

Reviews

[Marjory Sy]

Comprehensive for any tech-savvy person like me. This book seems to be a historical record since so much have evolved since it was published but SDN and NFV are yet to be standardized.

This book provides the fundamentals to understand SDN and how it differs from NFV, as many still interchange the two complementary concepts.

A good read, especially for those in the telco/service provider field.

[Vera]

Lots of information, well-sourced and well-written.

[Alejandro Marin]

It goes from the nitty gritty of how SDN works on a device level, to use cases and business trends. I still use it for references.

[Reynaldo]

This book traces the evolution of networking (back and forth from centralized / connection-based architectures to distributed / connection-less ones ) and the opposite innovation paths comparing with storage and servers where open source (e.g. Linux) was key to reduce costs and open the innovation to a broader ecosystem. The book goes to the technical details also. It is worth to read the OpenFlow chapter and the SDN applications proposed that include Java code to facilitate their implementations. There is chapter that explains the different industry approaches toward SDN that help to identify who is who in the industry and what is real Open SDN (control/data plane separation, openness, centralized control, simplified device, network automation & virtualization) , and what is vendors SDN marketing (proprietary). Finally, this book identify the challenges around SDN and proposes some areas for further investigation. The language is clear and the examples are easy to follow. Second edition was just published and is intended to update the SDN evolution of the last 3 years.

[Ricardo Matos]

Solid book that covers "what it is", "why you should use it", "why you shouldn't use it", "strong points", "weak points", "industry myths", "hype vs reality".

If you're looking for a non-vendor specific book about the fundamentals of SDN, this one is great!

[David]

Outstanding overview.

[TechVision]

Ensure the grab the latest edition
- Recommended by David Bombal