Student Doctor Network is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1999 for prehealth and health professional students in the United States and Canada.

When was SDN first introduced?

SDN's origins can be traced to a research collaboration between Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley that ultimately yielded the OpenFlow protocol in the 2008 timeframe.

How old is SDN?

SDN is now over 10 years old. When the history of SDN began, many people thought gleaming software-defined networks would replace tightly coupled, vertically integrated network products.