tion of the control logic and simplification network management, which will enable networks to keep in pace with the fast changing today's networks. SDN enables the current networking to address the high-bandwidth, dynamic nature of today's applications, adapt the network to ever changing business needs and significantly reduce operations and management complexity. One of the primary advantages of SDN is the support for more data-intensive applications like big data, network virtualization, and the Internet of Things (IOT). Features Environment: The Software defined network can work in all types of network environment. It can work as a part of carrier grade services, campus network, enterprise or a cloud data center. Services: The SDN network can provide its services to residential customers, non-residential customers; intent based services as well as non-intent based services. Resources: SDN services can be implemented over any kind of resource physical, virtual, compute or storage. Policy: It enables global policies for management, security and access rules over the whole network. Scalability: It can scale from local to global service span. Benefits of SDN Networks Some of the main benefits that SDN enterprises can achieve include: Centralized Control Plane: Centralization of control plane will ease the management, control and monitoring of whole network from one central location. Global policy management, Event based triggering and centralize information base will help the network to cope with fast changing scenarios. Since the whole topology information is available at one central location the congestion and fault information will move very quick to all devices SO corrective measures can be taken as once such a rerouting. Automation: The automation is provided by the application running over the control plane i.e. controller by using the northbound interface. The automation can be event triggered by some predefined rule or due to some exception to Downloaded: 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University 