This week Cisco announced their new strategy for engaging software defined networks (SDN) with the announcement of the the onePK (Cisco One Platform Kit). I think we saw what I think most of us expected. I didn’t expect an DK, so that was a pleasant surprise. I know many folks especially from R&E have wanted that visibility into the planes of… Continue reading Cisco onePK Announcement, big Surprise or About Time?
Category: Speculative
Cisco Networkers Live CLUS or whatever we call it now SDN Predictions
I was emailing with my buddy Roy at SDN Central http://www.sdncentral.com/ about it would be fun to see a poll for people to guess what Cisco will do with their big SDN announcement. I jotted down four options that are all in the realm of possibility, or at least the same realm of if SDN makes sense and… Continue reading Cisco Networkers Live CLUS or whatever we call it now SDN Predictions
The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem
The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem : What is a Northbound API (Application Programming Interface) in SDN? The Northbound API is available on a SDN controller that allows for applications to interact with the controller. The controller in turn, interacts with the network hardware through the OpenFlow protocol to manipulate the flow tables and send instructions… Continue reading The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem
Help Wanted: Cultural Change
Help Wanted: Cultural Change: This post is low on the nerdalert meter and more of the arts, rather than the science. Earlier this year, Level3 blogged about their new initiative of training ~%20 of their 11,000 person staff to be “change agents” in order to cross-pollinate their peers, the notion that change is healthy for… Continue reading Help Wanted: Cultural Change
SDN and OpenFlow Quotes from some of the Best
Like anyone reading this, we are avid consumers (in my case leech) of information. I put together some quote from people regarding SDN and OpenFlow. Most of the people in the list are intrinsic in helping me shape my own views regarding technology with the outstanding content, ideas and research they generate. “Think of it as a… Continue reading SDN and OpenFlow Quotes from some of the Best
SDN Use Cases
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”]SDN Use Cases[/fancy_header3] We have a few problems in networking. The following document are some SDN use cases that have come up over the past recent months/years. New abstractions in networking should enable solutions we never thought possible due to the monolithic nature of networking gear today (Mainframe 1980). This is all coming from… Continue reading SDN Use Cases
SDN for Internet Providers Use Case
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Use case for MPLS in the Enterprise for PCI Compliance
[fancy_header3 variation=”orange”] Use case for MPLS in the Enterprise for PCI Compliance[/fancy_header3] MPLS is today’s only form of scalable network virtualization we have for now. I personally think the promise of something called SDN will move into that space soon but until then, we need network virtualization. PCI is a joke. It is a racket… Continue reading Use case for MPLS in the Enterprise for PCI Compliance