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Cisco APIC Makes Best of Interop 2015 Finalist
With Interop less than three weeks away, we are excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the SDN controller for our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, has been selected as Best of Interop 2015 Finalists in Software Defined Networking (SDN) category. As you may recall, when we announced ACI b…
Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit
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…
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2
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 &#…
SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network
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 now like to apply our Cisco Domain TenSM framework “in anger” 🙂 to examine in more d…
ONE + ONE = 6: New Math for Enterprise Programmability
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…
What is a “Controller”? And how many do we need?
Thanks to SDN, the “Controller” word pops up in many network architecture discussions these days. In networking alone, we’re already surrounded by many “controllers” and we’re busy introducing more as we speak: For example, Session Border Controllers or Wireless LAN Controllers have been around for…
Let’s Clear Up Some Misconceptions – Is SDN Relevant to the Enterprise WAN?
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 s…
Meet Me On The Equinox
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…
OpenDaylight: Understanding the Value Propositions
The announcement today of OpenDaylight is big news. Industry leading companies are partnering via Open Source to serve an emerging set of market needs: Operators: want affordable real-time orchestration and operation of integrated virtual compute, application, and network. Application Developers…
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