Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

Question 1

What is Software Defined Networking (SDN)?

Answer 1

enables dynamic programmatically efficient network configuration to improve network performance and monitoring

Question 2

What is the Data Plane?

Answer 2

also known as the forwarding plane, is responsible for handling packets, moving data packets from place to place

Question 3

What is the Control Plane?

Answer 3

Brain of the network. It makes decisions about where traffic is sent.

Question 4

What is the Application Plane?

Answer 4

where all network applications that interact with the SDN controller reside.