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Excerpt: I keep having to remind myself that SDN is more about solving a policy problem than a transport problem. This is why the answer to the question “Will SDN solve all of our networking problems?” is always NO. Truth be told, SDN has been around for a while (see SNMP, Perl, Netconf) in various forms, but it’s receiving a lot of attention right now because the mechanisms are starting to mature and frankly, the networking industry hasn’t really seen a lot of groundbreaking innovations lately. While the debates behind which SDN mechanisms are best rage on, the choice of where the control plane…
KIClet: SDN – Pick Your Poison
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OpenFlow Symposium 2011 – Morning Session
October 27, 2011 by 2 Comments
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Excerpt: I was able to watch a good chunk of the morning session of the OpenFlow Symposium in San Jose. The stream was having issues at the beginning of the afternoon session, plus I was pulled away for other issues, so I was only able to watch the morning session. I’d like to provide a bit of a write-up from what I was able to catch, and point out some of the highlights that I took interest in from the day’s speakers. For those that haven’t heard – OpenFlow is the newest iteration of Software Defined Networking, which abstracts the control plane…
Useful OpenFlow Resources
September 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Excerpt: I did a post a while back introducing OpenFlow, and I informed you of my thoughts concerning this relatively new technology. Regardless of your need for a programmable network, the concept is certainly interesting and warrants some tinkering. It’s important to remember that OpenFlow itself is just a protocol definition, and until recently, there wasn’t a lot of software available that implemented it, and thus, no in-home tinkering. I’d like to point out a few new projects that are implementing OpenFlow and making it relatively easy to implement on your own. OpenFlow If the OpenFlow specification had a home, this would be…
Introduction to OpenFlow
June 14, 2011 by 2 Comments
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Excerpt: Ah – I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, for I am finally done with my Senior Design sequence, as well as my undergraduate education, for the most part. I “walked” just a few days ago, and after two small classes over the summer, I’ll get my diploma and be completely done. I’ve been feeling a little out of place, actually, since I’ve been in research mode for the last 9 months for my IPv6 project. So, after a short break, I decided to get back into things that I was just getting started with before all of that started….
