[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]More Details About The Cisco ONE Controller Announced[/fancy_header3] Cisco has begun further unveiling more details about the Cisco ONE controller, currently in early beta. The announcement, specifies new SDN applications and hardware support for a select few existing products and new ones like the Catalyst 3850. Also recently announced, is the new Nexus 6000 switching product,… Continue reading More Details About The Cisco ONE Controller Announced
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The SDN Impact on Net Neutrality
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]The SDN Impact on Net Neutrality[/fancy_header3] [pullquote2 align=”right” variation=”orange” cite=”Tim Berners-Lee” citeLink=” -Inventor of the World Wide Web”]The neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis of a fair competitive market economy. It is the basis of democracy, by which a community should decide what to do. It is the… Continue reading The SDN Impact on Net Neutrality
OpenFlow: SDN Hybrid Deployment Strategies
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]OpenFlow: SDN Hybrid Deployment Strategies[/fancy_header3] This series of posts, has been focused on reviewing some practical OpenFlow SDN deployment strategies. Early SDN, will be hybrid networks and early niche applications to begin understanding how to integrate pockets of SDN, mitigate risks and most importantly understand the technology to properly scale solutions. If you try and… Continue reading OpenFlow: SDN Hybrid Deployment Strategies
OpenFlow: Coarse vs. Fine Flows
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]OpenFlow: Coarse vs. Fine Flows[/fancy_header3] OpenFlow: Coarse vs. Fine Flows – This series of posts, is to shed light on some illogicalities surrounding the SDN discussion. I will highlight what I propose, will achieve performance and scale when implementing flow based forwarding designs. Soon these debates, will no longer be conceptual or limited deployments in… Continue reading OpenFlow: Coarse vs. Fine Flows
OpenFlow: Proactive vs Reactive Flows
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]OpenFlow: Proactive vs Reactive[/fancy_header3] As more people begin entering the Software Defined Networking conversation, there is still only one wire protocol that has a reasonably good chance at becoming the de-facto open SDN southbound messaging standard, OpenFlow. There is quite a bit of debate around whether or not OpenFlow can scale. Most claims that… Continue reading OpenFlow: Proactive vs Reactive Flows
Plexxi Capacity Planning Done Right
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]Plexxi Capacity Planning Done Right[/fancy_header3] I try and get a daily dose of at least a few minutes of a PacketPushers podcast to keep up with latest networking products and trends. In Show 126 Plexxi & Affinity Networking With Marten Terpstra Greg and Ethan meet with Marten Terpstra of Plexxi and dug into the new… Continue reading Plexxi Capacity Planning Done Right
Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review
[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review[/fancy_header3] Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review :In 2012 Google opened the doors up to some of it’s data centers in the typical colorful fashion we expect from Google. Hyper-scale content and cloud providers are ultra secretive about their trade secrets. Facebook’s Opencompute project is probably the… Continue reading Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review
Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators
[fancy_header3 variation=”deepblue”]Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators[/fancy_header3] [dropcap3 variation=”steelblue”]L[/dropcap3] ast week we looked at what the Network Service Provider Customers are looking for from vendors in the Network Virtualization Function (NFV). This week, let’s take a look at what the vendors were proposing in October at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.… Continue reading Programming the NSP: Vendors on SDN for SP Operators