Indiana University and Marist College are two early adopters of SDN.

However, the full potential of SDN has yet to be realized on most campuses. Many institutions are already putting SDN to use, deploying it to connect to the Internet2 Network or as part of a virtual data center environment. SDN is a means of simplifying configuration and increasing flexibility in hardware deployment by separating the control functions of networking gear from hardware-based processing.īeyond greater speed and capacity, SDN offers IT departments a greater level of control and flexibility over classic network environments, faster time to deployment for applications, improved IT productivity and, ultimately, savings on the bottom line. Given the growing number of users, vast amounts of storage and increasing bandwidth demands prevalent on most college campuses today, there are many facets of the SDN movement now ripe for campus IT teams to explore.

Nowhere is the potential of software-defined networking (SDN) more apparent than in the higher ed setting.

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