‘The ZNSL Network’: A Novel Approach to Virtual Networking

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach to software defined networking, which not only gives smaller organizations a means to access enterprise networking features that are normally out of their price range (such as BGP sessions and utilizing their own public IP address spaces), but also offers a simplified network topology for organizations whose physical segments are disaggregated throughout a large number of smaller branch offices as opposed to a few large offices. In addition, this approach provides an efficient means of adopting of IPv6 in regions where native IPv6 is not yet available