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Strategy: OpenFlow vs. Traditional Networks
Ferro, Greg | 01/13/12
OpenFlow and SDN have the potential to simplify network operations and management while driving down hardware costs. But they would also require IT to rethink traditional network architectures. At the same time, other protocols are available or emerging that can provide many of the same benefits without requiring major changes.
We’ll look at the pros and cons of OpenFlow and SDN and how they stack up with existing options to simplify networking. (S4060112)
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 Great OverviewComment by vikasd@yahoo.com Feb-03,2012 1:13:14 PMGreat overview of SDN. One has to wonder if you virtualize the forwarding plane why then have a centralized controller? Why not let an application directly set its path preference in network device.Reply |
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