I’ve been in network management a long time. Long enough to know that it ain’t sexy, and likely never will be perceived as sexy. My only dream is to at least get it moved from a cost center to a ...

SDN management tools include TAP monitoring applications and network packet brokers (NPB), which negotiate network traffic from multiple SPAN ports and manipulate it to allow more efficient use of ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a way to virtualize networks for ease of configuration and maintenance in the same way that servers and storage are being virtualized. The difference is that SDN ...

SolarWinds announced a refresh of its network management offerings that adds monitoring of software-defined networking (SDN) systems, adding support for Cisco's ACI initiative and new anomaly ...

OpenDaylight, the vendor-heavy consortium developing an open source SDN framework, has announced that its first software release is available for download. OpenDaylight’s “Hydrogen” release was ...

It turns out that the SDN model of higher-level controllers driving lower-level infrastructure elements fits nicely with the UC model. Unified Communications is becoming one of the early test beds for ...

The industry has high hopes for network automation. Industry research, as well as our own work, indicates that IT and networking professionals believe that many network management tasks can be ...

We have many guidelines for networking best practices, but what about for network management? I recently reviewed a customer's network in preparation for a network design and refresh. The review would ...