This blog is a continuation from my previous blog on SDN Openflow commercial applications. In this blog I will cover SDN applications in Network performance optimization and monitoring and Data center fabric.

Network performance optimization and monitoring

Networks have a lot of information and by looking at Network state and statistics collectively rather than at individual device level provides a lot of useful information. This information can be used to optimize the network based on application needs. The next set of applications are targeted towards monitoring Network state and statistics as well as improving the performance of the network.

Kemp SDN Adaptive load balancer

Kemp has integrated its Load master ADC with HP VAN SDN controller to provide adaptive load balancing based on the traffic load on the switches.  Normally ADC makes load balancing decisions based on L4-L7 characteristics. Kemp’s Load master ADC interacts with HP VAN SDN controller which in turn gets the traffic load on switches using Openflow. Based on the L2/L3 network statistics and the L4-L7 characteristics, Kemp’s Load master makes intelligent decisions on traffic steering and load balancing.

Continue reading SDN Openflow commercial applications – Part 2 →

In this blog, I will cover some commercial SDN Openflow applications available in the market now. SDN is the most overused term in the Networking industry now and there are different applications and technologies claiming as SDN.  I am going to cover SDN Openflow applications which rely on the model of switches supporting Openflow agent and a centralized controller running the control plane and programming the data path in the switches using Openflow protocol. The switches can either be virtual or physical switches. Following are the topics that I am planning to cover in this blog.

• SDN Openflow application model
• SDN Openflow applications. Following are some broad categories and examples of vendors providing the solutions in that category. This is not an exhaustive list..
  1. TAP Monitoring fabric – Bigswitch Big Tap monitoring fabric, Microsoft DEMon(Distributed Ethernet monitoring)
  2. Security – F5 Big Ddos, Bluecat DNS director,  HP Network protector, Radware Defenseflow, Guardicore Defense suite
  3. Network performance optimization and monitoring – Kemp adaptive load balancer, Realstatus hyperglance, Ecode Evolve, HP Network optimizer
  4. Data center fabric – Big switch big cloud fabric, HP VCN, NEC Programmable network fabric
• Final thoughts

In the first blog, I will cover the SDN Openflow application model and TAP monitoring fabric and Security applications. In the next blog, I will cover Network performance optimization and monitoring, Data center fabric and some final thoughts from my side.

Continue reading SDN Openflow commercial applications – Part 1 →