On 21/Jul/20 21:21, William Herrin wrote: > The Software Defined Network concept started as, "Let's use commodity > hardware running commodity operating systems to form the control plane > for our network devices." The concept has expanded somewhat to: "Lets > use commodity hardware running commodity operating systems AS our > network devices." For example, if you build a high-rate firewall with > DPDK on Linux, that's now considered SDN since its commodity hardware, > commodity OS and custom packet handling (DPDK) that skips the OS. > > This is happening a lot in the big shops like Amazon that can afford > to employ software developers to write purpose-built network code. It's possible that I wasn't clear. For the avoidance of doubt, "we still don't know what SDN means to us" means "we are not sold on the snake oil". Mark.
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