Feasibility of Software Defined Network in a SOHO Network

Abstract

A spotlight concept for the researchers in today's technology driven world is Software Defined Networking. Before a few decades, considered as extremely diverged domains, Software and Networking concepts are now converging itself to bring out feasible, effective, cost-efficient and easy solutions to the existing challenges in the networking domain. Due to the arrival of latest user-friendly technologies, IoT applications, the legacy networking domain is facing a drastic and dramatic growth with respect to the size and complexity. This brings in a whole lot of new challenges in managing, controlling and securing the existing legacy networks. Software Defined Networking, because of its decoupled architecture, will be a better alternative approach from the legacy network to provide a feasible solution for the existing challenges. This paper focuses on the existing challenges in the SOHO networks and the available options in Software Defined Networking to overcome the challenges. This paper is designed with an Introduction part describing the challenges in a SOHO Network continued with the pure SDN Architecture following with the industry approach on SDN implementation, SDN Standardization strategies and Cisco ONE SDN Architecture. This paper concludes with a comment on the feasibility of implementing SDN in SOHO networks replacing legacy network.