SDN technologies provide a lot of additional capabilities to address specialized traffic handling and application requirements. In this session, some of the most interesting solutions put forward by the R&E community and the industry will be presented. These include SDN-based firewalls, SDN for traffic engineering and bandwidth on demand, SDN-based attack mitigation and elephant flow management as well as closed loop event/threat management solutions and network visibility. Presentations show pictures SDN-enabled AutoBAHN. Envisioning future BoD services Alaitz Mendiola OpenFlow and NextGen SDN Status, plus REN Use Cases Curt Beckmann NFShunt: a hybrid SDN firewall for your science DMZ Simeon Miteff