On 3/Aug/16 18:11, jim deleskie wrote:
> I struggled with this whole SDN/NVF/insert marketing term for a while at > first, until I sat down and actually though about. When I strip away all > the foo, what I'm left with is breaking things down to pieces and and > putting logo blocks together in a way that best suits what I'm doing. It > is really going back to the way things were a long time ago in the days of > 12/2400 baud models and 56k frame relay. It doesn't help vendors vendors > that want to sell you over priced foo for features you don't really need. > It lets you, if you have clue build your own right bits. It will see some > vendors evolve, new vendors of their brand of foo appear and some vendors > die, but end of day, its no different then most of were doing back in the > "good ol days" The way I see it, the whole SDN/NFV talk has finally devolved into automation (separating the control and data plane is sooooo 2013). Automation is not new - a lot of networks have been automating for a long time now, albeit in custom ways that only worked for them... ummh, rephrase: was not tested in other networks. The reason I see SDN/NFV becoming a thing is just to have a standard way of automating. That's it. Mark.
