Executive View of UC SDN - Looking Up
Software defined networking (SDN) is one of the most exciting developments we have seen in the field of packet communications since its inception. The basic idea is to decouple the system that makes decisions about where packets are sent (i.e. the control plane) from the systems responsible for forwarding traffic to their destination (the data plane). The work of bringing this idea to fruition is being driven by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit trade organization founded by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!.