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 ...

Since the pandemic hit, networks have become “atomized,” meaning dispersed, ephemeral, encrypted, and diverse. I’ve written before about the security ...

The cloud is no longer an outlier to business transformation. Companies of all sizes, across any vertical, are standardizing cloud services to create strategic opportunities for growth, innovation, ...

As part of its tactical network modernization strategy, the Army has begun development, integration and Soldier-driven assessments to determine whether integrating commercial off-the-shelf solutions ...

Software-defined perimeter can be an important part of Zero Trust that enforces network access, but first plan the Zero Trust architecture and the changes that means for the network and security. Zero ...

Talkin' Bout An SDN Revolution? One of the biggest questions so far, it seems, is where the channel fits into the chatter and hype surrounding so-called software-defined networking (SDN). Between ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) promises some real benefits for people who use networks, but to the engineers who manage them, it may represent the end of an era. Ever since Cisco made its first ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Organizations are excited about ...

Enterprise network managers must rethink the traditional hub-and-spoke MPLS architecture if they're ever to enable true business agility. Agility has been a critical business and IT goal for so long ...

More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier ...

As nearly every other aspect of industrial technology goes digital, so too are industrial networks. And not just the communications that travel across these networks—which have long been digitized—but ...