The definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to broaden, today including functions such as configuration automation and orchestration. While these tasks aren’t strictly SDN, the fact ...

In the previous post on JUNOS I gave you a brief overview of the software architecture, with a particular emphasis on modularity. In this post, we’ll have a first look at maneuvering around within a ...

Network automation relies on a data repository to create network configurations and drive network validation tests. This repository has become known as a network source of truth (NSoT). The objective ...

Phoenix Contact introduced "EtherNet/IP Made Easy," a freeware tool that makes simplifies configuring Phoenix Contact managed switches and input/output devices (I/O ...

Software defined networking is one of the most misunderstood concepts in infrastructure computing. It’s a phenomenon that’s growing in relevance, but it’s still mysterious to many CIOs, particularly ...

Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration ...