2016-08-30 Notes

Introduction

SEL is introducing a new networking product for the utility market based on SDN. The fact that this technology is making it into the electric utility industry is pretty amazing considering how new it is.

A recent article sparked some conversation inside my group at work. I decided I should do some more research. I started reading about SDN by purchasing Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow. This book served as a good introduction to SDN and using a simulation platform called Mininet.

One question I still have is how to achieve fast failovers with SDN.

I plan to keep researching this and playing with the simulations.