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Uptake of SDN Routing Hurting Conventional Sales

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the series-of-tubes dept.

evilviper writes:

"According to industry analysts, the reduced sales of traditional switching/routing heavyweights, during this traditionally active time, is due to widespread corporate investments and trials of software defined networking (SDN) equipment, which promises to improve routing efficiency, network management, and dramatically reduce hardware costs. Industry heavyweights like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others are already heavily invested in OpenFlow and SDN, but it seems to be taking hold on a much wider scale, and not just in ultra-massive data centers."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Monday March 17 2014, @10:02PM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Monday March 17 2014, @10:02PM (#17895)

    I think this software defined networking has major implications for security. Der Spiegel writes [spiegel.de]:

    In the case of Juniper, the name of this particular digital lock pick is "FEEDTROUGH." This malware burrows into Juniper firewalls and makes it possible to smuggle other NSA programs into mainframe computers. Thanks to FEEDTROUGH, these implants can, by design, even survive "across reboots and software upgrades." In this way, US government spies can secure themselves a permanent presence in computer networks. The catalog states that FEEDTROUGH "has been deployed on many target platforms."

    and

    A document viewed by SPIEGEL resembling a product catalog reveals that an NSA division called ANT has burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry -- including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell.

    So maybe SDN will allow networks to fragment like Linux distros, and combined with security technology and sophisticated traffic handling, SDN might change the game for this kind of malware and hopefully give us a powerful new weapon against spying

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