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Packet Pushers Discussion of Cisco’s SDN Strategy at Cisco Live US 2012




This Presentation date is June 25, 2012 at 13:00-14:00.

Presenters: Stephen Foskett
Delegate Panel: Derick Winkworth, Ethan Banks, Greg Ferro, Omar Sultan, Russ White, Tom Hollingsworth

A group of independent thought leaders from the Networking Field Day/PacketPushers crew gathered at Cisco Live US 2012 to discuss the company’s Open Networking Environment (ONE) announcement. This announcement centered on a strategy for software-defined networking (SDN), and this was the focus of our discussion as well.


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A group of independent thought leaders from the Networking Field Day/PacketPushers crew gathered at Cisco Live US 2012 to discuss the company’s Open Networking Environment (ONE) announcement. This announcement centered on a strategy for software-defined networking (SDN), and this was the focus of our discussion as well.

This wide-ranging discussion touched on the following topics:

  • Contrasting Cisco’s ONE strategy with SDN and OpenFlow in general
  • APIs, OpenFlow, and XML
  • What will people do with SDN in the future?
  • Distributed and autonomous versus centralized
  • Standards: IEEE vs. IETF, de facto and interoperability
  • VXLAN and the Nexus 1000V – Is 1000V SDN?
  • Operational and organizational impacts
  • Systems engineering
  • Thinking of networks as flows

The conversation will continue in July with two more “Virtual Symposium” discussions with Cisco. We will cover Network Programmability and Virtual Machine Networking. Watch for more!

Personnel: Derick Winkworth, Ethan Banks, Greg Ferro, Russ White, Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth

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