AlcaLu wants to see policy infused into SDN early on. Ideally, the network would tap a user profile — or a virtual machine’s profile — to help it make on-the-fly decisions about what to do with traffic coming from (or being sent to) a virtualized application.

via Alcatel-Lucent Takes SDN to the Enterprise – IP & Convergence – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading Service Provider IT.