No. Honestly, software defined networking is the idea of replacing all of your networking staff with a very clever distributed Java program. Half the world thinks this is genius and the other half thinks it's a facepalm.
Network Functions Virtualization is the idea of replacing networking boxes (Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, F5, ...) with virtual machines running on your own PCs. This is basically a "private cloud" but with emphasis on doing networking in a way that doesn't annoy ISPs.
Rest assured that Software Defined Networking will be redefined to mean whatever the next good technology turns out to be :-)
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I'm clueless, so I'll just ask: is this made for software-defined networking?
No. Honestly, software defined networking is the idea of replacing all of your networking staff with a very clever distributed Java program. Half the world thinks this is genius and the other half thinks it's a facepalm.
Network Functions Virtualization is the idea of replacing networking boxes (Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, F5, ...) with virtual machines running on your own PCs. This is basically a "private cloud" but with emphasis on doing networking in a way that doesn't annoy ISPs.
Rest assured that Software Defined Networking will be redefined to mean whatever the next good technology turns out to be :-)
That's interesting because i have always thought SDN are what you are describing as NFV.