2013 Software Defined Networks for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS)

oftware Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) are creating conditions for the reinvention of network architecture. This is happening first on the edges of the network, to where intelligence has already begun to migrate and where innovation is urgent to overcome rigidities through the flexibility of network infrastructure and services. It is likely that SDNs will impact the future evolution of networks. The adoption of the principles of SDNs will enable savings in costs and improvements in the Quality of Service (QoS) and also create new market opportunities. It will be a question of following the line of thought that predicts that technology and business development will be increasingly intertwined. A given technology will be adopted not only considering its advantages and reliability, but also it will be judged as to whether it will be able to create the desired ecosystem. On the other hand, recently developed ecosystems look for permissive solutions and technologies capable of making them a reality.