Software-defined networking

Software-defined networking - technology that allows network administrators to programmatically initialize, control, change, and manage network behavior dynamically via open interfaces. Article "Software-defined networking" in English Wikipedia has 56 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 83 references and 17 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Software-defined networking" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Software-defined networking", its content was written by 222 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 449 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 146 times in English Wikipedia and cited 423 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6895 in November 2016
• Global: #22538 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4125 in July 2013
• Global: #11825 in July 2013

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		56.0199
2	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク		40.2302
3	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		39.4094
4	German (de) Software-defined Networking		35.461
5	Italian (it) Software-defined networking		29.0056
6	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 정의 네트워킹		26.6639
7	Hebrew (he) רשת מונחית תוכנה		25.1867
8	Finnish (fi) Ohjelmallisesti määritetty verkko		22.1947
9	Chinese (zh) 軟體定義網路		19.3867
10	Persian (fa) شبکه نرم‌افزارمحور		19.1841

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Software-defined networking" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		3 769 494
2	Chinese (zh) 軟體定義網路		238 356
3	French (fr) Software-defined networking		231 061
4	German (de) Software-defined Networking		210 716
5	Russian (ru) Программно-определяемая сеть		209 520
6	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		198 150
7	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク		71 423
8	Italian (it) Software-defined networking		51 396
9	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 정의 네트워킹		42 668
10	Polish (pl) Programowalna sieć komputerowa		28 259

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Software-defined networking" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		6 126
2	Russian (ru) Программно-определяемая сеть		560
3	Chinese (zh) 軟體定義網路		479
4	German (de) Software-defined Networking		436
5	French (fr) Software-defined networking		411
6	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		319
7	Italian (it) Software-defined networking		237
8	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク		172
9	Polish (pl) Programowalna sieć komputerowa		147
10	Ukrainian (uk) Програмно-конфігурована мережа		86

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Software-defined networking" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		222
2	German (de) Software-defined Networking		71
3	French (fr) Software-defined networking		29
4	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク		18
5	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		15
6	Arabic (ar) شبكات معرفة بالبرمجيات		12
7	Persian (fa) شبکه نرم‌افزارمحور		12
8	Russian (ru) Программно-определяемая сеть		12
9	Chinese (zh) 軟體定義網路		12
10	Hebrew (he) רשת מונחית תוכנה		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Software-defined networking" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		2
2	Arabic (ar) شبكات معرفة بالبرمجيات		0
3	German (de) Software-defined Networking		0
4	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		0
5	Persian (fa) شبکه نرم‌افزارمحور		0
6	Finnish (fi) Ohjelmallisesti määritetty verkko		0
7	French (fr) Software-defined networking		0
8	Hebrew (he) רשת מונחית תוכנה		0
9	Indonesian (id) Software-defined networking		0
10	Italian (it) Software-defined networking		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Software-defined networking" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Software-defined networking		146
2	Italian (it) Software-defined networking		47
3	Russian (ru) Программно-определяемая сеть		43
4	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク		34
5	French (fr) Software-defined networking		30
6	German (de) Software-defined Networking		22
7	Chinese (zh) 軟體定義網路		21
8	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 정의 네트워킹		18
9	Spanish (es) Redes definidas por software		14
10	Persian (fa) شبکه نرم‌افزارمحور		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شبكات معرفة بالبرمجيات
de	German Software-defined Networking
en	English Software-defined networking
es	Spanish Redes definidas por software
fa	Persian شبکه نرم‌افزارمحور
fi	Finnish Ohjelmallisesti määritetty verkko
fr	French Software-defined networking
he	Hebrew רשת מונחית תוכנה
id	Indonesian Software-defined networking
it	Italian Software-defined networking
ja	Japanese ソフトウェア定義ネットワーク
ko	Korean 소프트웨어 정의 네트워킹
pl	Polish Programowalna sieć komputerowa
pt	Portuguese Software defined networking
ru	Russian Программно-определяемая сеть
uk	Ukrainian Програмно-конфігурована мережа
zh	Chinese 軟體定義網路

Best Rank

English: #4125 07.2013

Global: #11825 07.2013

Best Rank

English: #6895 11.2016

Global: #22538 06.2013

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