We decided to take advantage of the fine collection of smart people running around at CiscoLive in San Diego, and tape another in our Virtual Symposia series.  This one was a bit different than in that we started with a Cisco-specific seed topic and we did not take live Q&A due to the logistics of being live and onsite at CiscoLive.

I think the show turned out well--we have a wide ranging discussion on not just the Cisco ONE announcement but also SDN, network programmability and implications for networking folks.

This wide-ranging discussion touched on a number of topics:

• Contrasting Cisco’s ONE strategy with SDN and OpenFlow in general
• APIs, OpenFlow, and XML
• What will people do with SDN in the future?
• Distributed and autonomous versus centralized
• Standards: IEEE vs. IETF, de facto and interoperability
• VXLAN and the Nexus 1000V – Is 1000V SDN?
• Operational and organizational impacts
• Systems engineering
• Thinking of networks as flows

The video is hosted on the Tech Field Day site.

As I noted last week, we will be hosting Virtual Symposia #3 (more on network programmability) and #4 (VM networking) later this month.  I should have the registration links up tomorrow.  We have a killer panel coming together and we will once again have most of the show dedicated to audience Q&A, so I hope you can join us for those.

Tags: Cisco ONE, Packet Pushers, SDN, tech field day, virtual symposia