[vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 20, Issue 29

[Neil Cherry]

On 06/30/2017 01:06 AM, Cory Smelosky via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> And that ignores the whole Software Defined Network (SDN) trend which is
>> predominately OSS+White Box Hardware.  Little guys like Google, Amazon & Facebook are
>> betting on that.
>
> There's still a bunch of ASIC handling offload of forwarding so I'm still confused as
> to what precisely is software defined in SDN ;)

I'm working with SDN (and NVF and VNF and ...) and it allow the networks
to build and teardown the routes, bridges, GWs, and Services (Gateway)
as needed. Easier to see in the LTE network but I was surprised when
I saw they figured it out to the CPE also. That doesn't mean this doesn't
confuse me still.

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