Faucet: Deploying SDN in the Enterprise.

The article discusses the use of open source software-defined networking (SDN) in enterprise networks. Topics include the use of the Faucet network by the organization Open Networking Foundation, the testing and deployment of networking software, and the role of a control-plane network (CPN) in netw...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 45 - 50
Main Authors:	BAILEY, JOSH, STUART, STEPHEN
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2017
Subjects:	Software-defined networking Enterprise networks (Telecommunications) Computer software testing Computer network security Open source software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the use of open source software-defined networking (SDN) in enterprise networks. Topics include the use of the Faucet network by the organization Open Networking Foundation, the testing and deployment of networking software, and the role of a control-plane network (CPN) in network security.