Preliminary Study of Software Defined Network on COVID-19 Pandemic Use Cases

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic had a big impact on the internet usage. Many big IT infrastructure providing giants have to perform the migration of the networking infrastructure for "work from home" scheme. The new challenging use cases where the provisioning of solutions such as switching to open-source platforms from proprietary devices requires attention. The maximum usage of a VPN for teleconferencing and “work from home” scheme caused a huge surge on the internet. This situation forced all the IT infrastructure providers to switch towards Software-Defined Network (SDN), Hybrid Software-Defined Network (HSDN), and Software-Defined Wide-Area Networks (SD-WAN). This paper focuses on the new areas and use cases generated due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.