Aplicaciones que permiten la interacción y

comunicación con toda la arquitectura. Realiza la

abstracción de la red permite conocer desde la
cantidad y distribución de los dispositivos hasta la
recolección de estadísticas de comportamiento de
la red y es donde se toman decisiones sobre su
administración.

Centraliza el control de flujo de información del

plano de datos. Contiene las políticas de reenvío o
desvío de datos, tablas de flujo y posee una
perspectiva general de la red hospedada en un
controlador SDN.

Dispositivos de red, switches, routers, access

points. Los cuales no tienen una función fija sino
un set de instrucciones dadas por el plano de
control.

NFV tiene como objetivo la virtualización de las

funciones de red de manera que éstas no
dependan del hardware en el que se desplieguen.
SDN puede utilizarse a bajo nivel para conectar
infraestructura virtualizada, o a alto nivel para
ayudar a componer funciones virtualizadas de red
en NFV
SDN in the Campus An OpenFlow-based SDN network architecture simplifies the campus network while offering significantly greater flexibility. • Rapid service deployment and tear down without impacting other logical networks, thanks to network virtualization. • Improved
service availability because alternate paths can be pre-computed, which also improves responsiveness compared with traditional network convergence upon topology changes. • Traffic isolation of logical networks at both Layer 2 and Layer 3. • Optimal resource
utilization, because management, services, and applications are virtualized to maximize utilization while minimizing space and power consumption

Key Benefits OpenFlow-based SDN networks offer a number of tangible benefits in the campus environment, including: • Traffic isolation through granular policy management applied to flows, facilitating compliance, security, and multi-tenancy. • Bandwidth optimization
through network virtualization and centralized control over the virtual and physical infrastructure. This improves the utilization of individual network devices as well as the overall network. • Streamlined operations and management by simplifying the network configuratio
and supplanting manual and craft-sensitive management with automation. • Improved reliability by leveraging centralized path selection and failover control to improve service and application availability. • Improved agility through SDN programmability and abstraction. •
Openness from an architecture facilitated by OpenFlow, which promotes multi-vendor interoperability and affords customers control over the features roadmap. Adoption of open source software is also encouraged in the open SDN environment.
In May of 2010 CBS news reported 1 in 4 houses in America had dropped their land line phones and were using cell phones only, that number increased to 50% when looking at those aged 25-29.  A very similar trend is taking place on school campuses today. Much like
the land-line phone wired infrastructure isn’t going to become obsolete, but the game is changing…FAST! Wired infrastructure can’t go away, but it will continue to be reduced to supporting devices that have to be wired and to support the campus wireless network.

Wired Infrastructure costs

When you add up the cost of the wired network, the cost of a network drop including the switch port, wiring, labor, and configuration can add up to well over $300 per connection.  If a port analysis is done and ports are not being used, why keep wiring up buildings? This is
especially true when much of the distribution layer can be reduced to save on energy and support costs. 

 Wireless networks are more Scalable

The ability to add a user to an access point is very easy; nothing needs to be physically done. That doesn’t hold true for a wired connection.  Factors like port availability come into play not to mention physically running the cable, and configuring the switch.  Adding the
25th user to a 24 port switch can increase costs dramatically, taking into account the additional hardware and support that comes along with another switch.