Since I last blogged about Software Defined Networking last year industry discussion on this topic has risen to the highest levels of exuberance. Leading industry analyst Nick Lippis views this as the third epoch of networking with applications finally being freed from physica...
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Ushering in the Software Defined Cloud Networking Era
May 2nd, 2012Application Based Cloud Networking – The Next Frontier
March 27th, 2012Networking over the past two decades has mostly been about raw connectivity. Rarely have applications been tuned and optimized to truly take advantage of the network. People have been talking about this vision for years but few have gone much beyond just talking. The reason is...
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The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity
January 31st, 2012
As we enter 2012, the networking industry faces much need for a return to focusing on simplicity and standards amidst the confusion created by proprietary vendor-specific architectures. Cisco waxes eloquent about scaling large data center networks with “FabricPath”. Junip...
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Cloud Networking Reflections
December 14th, 2011
Every year I like to reflect on my previous years predictions and look at how well they mapped to what actually happened. Once again, that time has come – so let’s take a walk down the 2011 memory lane to judge how I fared!
Prediction #1:
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