CenturyLink’s decision to build adaptive networks is paying off during the coronavirus pandemic. CenturyLink uses “adaptive networks” to describe its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization-based networks. Laurinda Pang, CenturyLink’s president of international and global accounts management, cited her company’s adaptive networks in a recent blog post.
Service providers, including AT&T, Verizon, Orange and Colt Technology Services, that invested in software-defined networking prior to the coronavirus crisis have been more responsive than ones that are still using legacy or hybrid networks.
