Foundations of Modern Networking: Background and Motivation of Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

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3.4 Key Terms

After completing this chapter, you should be able to define the following terms.

• application programming interface (API)
• consortium
• datagram
• flow
• IEEE 802
• northbound API
• open standard
• packet switching
• REpresentational State Transfer (REST)
• Request For Comments (RFC)
• service function chaining
• southbound API
• standard
• standards-developing organization (SDO)
• TCP/IP protocol architecture