I tell everyone we had SDNs in the 90s. But we called it “expect scripts”. :-) -- TTFN, patrick
On Dec 4, 2019, at 9:41 PM, Jennifer Rexford <jrex@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
SDN is definitely an overloaded and confusing term that is used inconsistently. Here are a few attempts to explain:
- “The Road to SDN: An Intellectual History of Programmable Networks” (ACM Queue, December 2013) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327 <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327>
- “Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks” (CACM, October 2014) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf>
- “From Ethane to SDN and Beyond” (ACM SIGCOMM CCR, October 2019) https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/acmdl19-347.pdf <https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/acmdl19-347.pdf>
— Jen
On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:56 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com <mailto:rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>> wrote:
Can someone explain what is all the fuss? SDN is like the latest telecom craze but the articles do a poor job of explaining the advantages. I seek concrete examples.
Regards,
Roderick.
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