You might have heard about Software-Defined Networking (SDN). If you are in the networking industry this is a topic that you probably have studied initially when you heard about the SDN for the first time.
To understand the importance of the SDN and SDN controller, let's look at Google. Google silently built its own networking switches and controller called Jupiter, a home grown project that is mostly software driven and supports such massive scale of Google.
Similar to all other technologies, we were in a hype for SDN for the last three years, everyone was talking about it, while it was still un-matured enough. The technology hype is a cycle for each and every new technology being introduced ...