HN817: Is There a Better Way to Do Software Defined Networking?
From Heavy Networking by Packet Pushers
March 6, 2026 · 57 min · Episode 817
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of Software Defined Networking and explores potential improvements to its architecture.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a centralized architecture in which a controller, or a hierarchy of controllers, runs software that computes network-engineered paths and pushes that forwarding scheme into the network. It’s also very complex, which can lead to network failures. What if there was a way to keep the benefits of SDN while also ... Read more »
Topics covered
- Software Defined Networking
- network architecture
- network failures
- centralized architecture
- network-engineered paths
Keywords
- SDN
- networking
- controller
- network paths
- network complexity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Software Defined Networking
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