UC and SDN: Applications Controlling Networks
The recent Microsoft Lync Conference in Las Vegas drove home the important point that there's more to software defined networking (SDN) than the hope of a cheaper router. Spearheaded by Pascal Menezes, Principal Program Manager in the Skype and Lync Strategic Relations and Solutions group at Microsoft and Manfred Arndt, Distinguished Technologist at HP (both companies are board level founders of the UCI Forum), the program featured a number of sessions dealing with the various impacts of SDN on the UC user experience (UX).