Software Defined Networking (SDN): Anatomy of OpenFlow Volume I Paperback – Big Book, 25 March 2015

it is a quick reference to SDN, and gives a good clarity

Book arrived as, in stated condition. This book is for those who wants to explore in detail about the SDN. Just read through some chapters, it is an informative book.

This book starts off with a very brief, but concise depiction of why we have a data plane, and control plane. And even more so, it explains the reason how all these different convergence addons (LISP, BFD, etc) evolved. Then it gets to why SDN would alleviate all of that, plus vendor-specific knowledge about implementation of networking protocols, etc. I am just in the middle of the 3rd chapter, and I must say, I couldn't have become interested in SDN at a better time (except for day one, wink). But now that it has evolved, and is on the forefront, I see this as another "disruption" in the field of networking. So as a network engineer, i'm climbing aboard now!

I really like this book, concise and easy to read. 😄

The authors did a brilliant job in defining clearly what is SDN. The fog has cleared in my head on the relationship between cloud, virtualization, SDN, OpenFlow and OpenStack. A lot of the buzz words out in the industry are clearly explained through example in this book. An excellent introductory into the fundamentals of SDN. I am eagerly waiting for volume 2! I will be the first person to purchase the volume 2 :) . Thumbs up!