I don’t think equipment vendors are scared by the idea of software networks because they are participating in that space in a big way. Look at what Cisco is doing or Juniper for that matter with contrails. I haven’t worked with the Cisco virtualized objects but I have used Junipers VFirefly which is a virtualized instance of an SRX and it’s quite interesting. You can also put VFirefly in packet mode and end up with something similar to a J series router. I can definitely see where it’s going and some of the cool applications of network elements as software.
On Jun 20, 2014, at 3:47 AM, Vitkovský Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > I think vendors have grasped this emerging opportunity very well. > Take Cisco for example the openflow APIs are available to the majority of > their high-end products and they have virtualized their OSes as well. > > I know for a fact that majority of SPs use some kind of NFV already. > However I'd be interested to know how many SP the use SDN. > > How I understand it is that SDN is network that orchestrates/provisions > itself based on the traffic flows or application signaled requirements of > course within operator's defined boundaries for a given > service/customer/application. > NFV on the other hand is using "cheap" processing power to offload network > functions that don't have "high" pps requirements. > The first think that comes to mind is control-plane (like Mark is doing with > RRs) also some data-plane functions can be offloaded to servers like CGN or > FW. > And the nice think about NFV is that since you can do it in a "cloud" if > designed correctly it should never go down. > > > adam > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Aaron >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:33 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [c-nsp] sdn/nfv >> >> I hope you all don't mind the off-topic question in this cisco mail list. >> you all are such a broad and smart and experienced group that I wanted to >> reach out to everyone out there in the trenches to get a feel for what you >> all >> know about sdn/nfv and do you see any movement on it yet, etc. >> >> >> >> I have been reading a little bit about sdn/nfv/openflow and it seems that >> these are radical, new ideas that seem that they could really change a lot >> about what we've know about networks for the past decades. >> >> >> >> Is anyone out there yet working with any sdn controllers?.... or nfv objects >> in >> servers. or openflow? >> >> >> >> Does sdn/nfv scare the heck out of equipment manufacturers ? >> >> >> >> Aaron >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
