Software Defined Networking

Question 1

What is SND?

Answer 1

Sofware Defined Networking. It extends devices to a cloud enviroment. It allows network management to do be done through software based controllers and APIs.

Question 2

What does the infastructure layer / data plane of SND do?

Answer 2

It does the forwarding, trunking, encrypting and NAT. It also processes the network frames and packets.

Question 3

What does the control layer / control plane do?

Answer 3

It manages the actions of the data plane. It runs dynamic routing protocol updates. It also contains routing tables, session tables, NAT tables.

Question 4

What does the application layer / management layer plane do?

Answer 4

This is how you configure and manage it. This is used via SSH and APs.