Introduction to the Workshop

Hello Everyone!

SDN is a very new networking concept and thus an exciting research avenue.
You may not have heard of the name, but did you know that Google Data Centres use these too?

Well, SDN stands for Software Defined Networking and it proposes a paradigm where we can control network device functionality and operations through a central server (through software and hence the name).

Machine Learning as you may be aware of is a mechanism to find out hidden patterns and make analytical predictions of unseen data.

Through this workshop, we hope to introduce to you an exciting culmination of these two very researched domains of SDN and ML. The workshop would be a hand-on exercise to ensure maximum exposure to these topics in the limited span of 3 days.

Hence, we require you to come a little prepared. Please go through the second post on this blog so you are equipped with the prerequisite tools for the hands-on exercise.

I hope you are as excited as we are!

Happy Networking!

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