SDN: Changing Only Everything About Networking (and IT)

It’s been about eight years since Software-Defined Networking (SDN) hit the headlines with a lot of fanfare, initially as a way to disaggregate a Cisco router and reduce the operating expense (Opex) in data centers. Since that time, its more fundamental changes to everything about networking have seeped into not only the technology of networking but the technology of computing and the structure of the IT industry as well. In this talk we will examine some of these impacts, involving technology.

Speaker: Dan Pitt, MEF Forum