Network infrastructure is a massive investment and it always existed to delver a service or an application, and so is the job of routers, switches, firewalls etc. We’ve seen the change over the last decade, networking has moved on from a CLI driven box by box approach to Network automation which abstracts this approach using […]
Business drivers wants IT to deploy, scale, and optimize applications on demand to increase business agility and lower operating costs. SDN and related solutions propose to accomplish this through programmatic extensions to the network, so that IT and business policies can be implemented in software, and the software can automate network administration tasks, reducing the […]
Cisco ACI (Application centric intrastructure) is an architecture that includes the policy controller and policy repository (Cisco APIC), infrastructure nodes which are network devices, virtual switches, network services and a protocol communication between Cisco APIC and the infrastructure. For Cisco ACI, that protocol is OpFlex. Cisco OpFlex is a southbound protocol in a software-defined network (SDN) […]
White boxes are another name for switches built from off-the-shelf components. Organizations that focus on standardizing and eliminating superfluous software features will lower costs faster than those that focus on reducing hardware. White box switches rely on an operating system (OS), which may come already installed or can be purchased from a software vendor and loaded separately, […]
ONOS is a SDN networking operating system for Service Provider networks. It is architected for high availability, scalability, performance and rich northbound and southbound abstractions. ONOS has been developed by ON.Lab in partnership with a community of leading service providers, vendors and researchers. Like OpenDaylight, ONOS delivers an SDN control plane featuring northbound and southbound APIs, […]
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