From the course: Windows Server 2019: Advanced Networking Features

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SDN concepts

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SDN concepts

- [Instructor] Software defined networking provides a networking method to centrally configure and manage physical and virtual network devices such as routers, switches and gateways in your network. Virtual network elements such as Hyper-V virtual switch, Hyper-V network virtualization and Windows Server Gateway are designed to be important elements of your software defined networking infrastructure. While you can still use your existing physical switches, routers and other hardware devices, you can achieve deeper integration between the virtual network and the physical network if these devices are designed for compatibility with software defined networking. There are several different types of software devices that we can configure using software defined networking such as the network controller which provides a centralized programmable point of automation to manage, configure, monitor and troubleshoot both virtual and physical network infrastructure in your data center. When you…

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