SDN controller
Designing Fault Tolerant Data Centers of the Future
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To respond to application failures as quickly as possible, network administrators need a highly scalable, fault-tolerant data center architecture that is simple to manage and troubleshoot.
Cisco APIC Makes Best of Interop 2015 Finalist
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With Interop less than three weeks away, we are excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the SDN controller for...
Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit
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Earlier this month, I attended the first ever summit on OpenDaylight (ODL) project in Santa Clara, CA. This near sold out event was largely successful by many standards. It brought together a large number of great minds to the table to solve some of the toughest challenges the networking industry is facing around Software-defined Networking […]
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2
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Last week I started my SDN reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference, and I found I had quite a lot to discuss. Last week I covered: Do we need SDN? SDN and the Gartner Hype Cycle SDN Deployment Models So here is the concluding part. This week I’ll cover: Overlay-Based SDN — and the […]
SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network
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In my first SDN blog, I asserted that "Services" - that is technical support, professional and consultancy services - are the missing "S" in the SDN debate. I'd...
ONE + ONE = 6: New Math for Enterprise Programmability
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In my previous 3-part blog series I discussed the challenges in the Enterprise WAN and relevancy of SDN in overcoming these challenges and how Cisco ONE Enterprise Networks Architecture addresses these WAN challenges. In this blog post I will discuss how Cisco ONE (Open Network Environment) and ONE Enterprise Networks Architecture fit together. In a […]
Let’s Clear Up Some Misconceptions – Is SDN Relevant to the Enterprise WAN?
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June is summer weather in the San Francisco Bay Area, but quite different from the June I was used to in Boston. A common misconception around Mark Twain and his relationship with San Francisco summer is that he never said “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” But he did […]
Meet Me On The Equinox
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Congratulations to all OpenDaylight founding partners, contributors, users and supporters. I am convinced this ambitious endeavor will redefine the meaning of “open source = collaboration”. This is a historic event, the coming of age of networking partners driving in the open source world, companies which until now, have been primarily preoccupied with driving open standards, though […]