Software-Defined Networking and Network Programmability: Use Cases for Defense and Intelligence Communities
Reema Prasad · 2014
This paper examines how recent advances in software-defined networking (SDN) and network programmability can be used to simplify operations, enhance agility, and meet new mission requirements within U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community networks. SDN and network programmability have emerged to address trends in IT by providing greater automation and orchestration of the network fabric, and by allowing dynamic, application-led configuration of networks and services. To deliver these requirements, networks must be open, programmable, and application aware. Networks must evolve to meet these emerging trends without compromising their current resiliency, service richness, or security, and without disrupting previous organizational investments. This paper demonstrates, by means of use cases, how current networking issues within federal agencies, such as the DoD and intelligence community, may be solved through SDN and network programmability.