Building more intelligent networks
Software Defined Networking Testbed for Researchers
Established by AARNet in collaboration with nine universities and CSIRO Data61, the Australia Wide-Area SDN Testbed is an innovation platform for developing high-speed technologies.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging technology with the potential to revolutionise the way networks are provisioned and managed. SDN offers solutions for improving network flexibility and reducing costs via software-based management and control.
The programmability of SDN promises to make networks more dynamic, for example, able to respond to changing conditions such as congestion or link failure.
At its core, SDN is about abstracting lower level networking functionality (hardware and control) from higher level applications and operating systems. This abstraction enables smarter application design and better integration across cloud service providers, while those applications and service providers remain agnostic to the hardware running the network underneath them.
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