All aspects of conflict — including networks, communications, logistics — will be contested in the future, military leaders commonly say.
But from a networking perspective, many of industry's solutions in the software-defined networking space are not ready for war.
“The commercial products [deployed] at the tactical edge … need to be deployable with the mindset of a near-peer war,” Greg Ross, software-defined networking technology lead at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Atlantic, said at a defense conference hosted Dec. 7 in Charleston, S.C., by the Charleston Defense Contractors Association.