Hello everyone, I was thinking, throughout last design sessions with my customers, those vendors are really pushing hard for their "SDN something" solutions adoption.
SD WAN, SD access, Software defined everything, are all closed standards, aren't they? I was wondering why will we abandon the model for open standards, which had served as so well for many-many years? There's no real world product, be it network-device-white-box or SDx controller, implementing an open standard, isn't it? Sure, 99.99999% of those offerings, are really suitable for enterprises only and maybe (just maybe) a data center. And while network-as-a-service is really a thing for service providers only, I was thinking, is it really a good thing, to base your network, be it enterprise or other, on closed standard? So what do you think? I'm genuinely interested in our community thoughts on that. Is there is, an open software defined network standard or is it really a good thing, to sell your soul to a single vendor, for years to come? Best regards. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
