The White House and national security officials want more information on how public telecommunications carriers have responded to the pressure from spiking teleworkers’ network usage, according to members at a May 13 meeting of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council (featured).
The group is at work on a formal report on software-defined networking, a set of technologies that virtualizes much of the hauling and switching activity that requires hardware in older generations of communications technology. SDN has dramatically shaped the response to increased loads on national telecommunications networks during the pandemic, members said at their teleconference.
