> Jeff Bacon > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:55 PM > > > Who said anything about boxing your tooling in to SDN tech? You > > described Software Defined Networking as a rabbit hole and snake oil. > > It isn't. It's a class of tools in the networking toolbox and an > > increasingly > useful one. > > As it is, we have marketing people sticking "SDN" onto every bloody thing > that comes along in the hopes that it'll better catch the attention of someone > without enough of a clue that they'll cough up (and leave someone else to > figure out what to do with it). I freely admit that's just what they do and > expecting them to do anything different is wishful thinking, but I don't see > any of us doing anything about it except creating long email chains wherein > we just keep trying to munge apples and oranges together. :) > I suggest we educate users so they can make better decisions on what tool to use for what job and not get confused in all the marketing jive around SDN. Blueprint: MEF-SDN/NFV Certification Exam: https://wiki.mef.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75990347 - has a pretty good list of self-study material, don't worry you might have read a lot of those books already.
adam
