Jeff Bacon Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:55 PM
Who said anything about boxing your tooling in to SDN tech? You > described Software Defined Networking as a rabbit hole and snake oil. It isn't. It's a class of tools in the networking toolbox and an > increasingly useful one.
As it is, we have marketing people sticking "SDN" onto every bloody thing that comes along in the hopes that it'll better catch the attention of someone without enough of a clue that they'll cough up (and leave someone else to figure out what to do with it). I freely admit that's just what they do and expecting them to do anything different is wishful thinking, but I don't see any of us doing anything about it except creating long email chains wherein we just keep trying to munge apples and oranges together. :)
I suggest we educate users so they can make better decisions on what tool to use for what job and not get confused in all the marketing jive around SDN. Blueprint: MEF-SDN/NFV Certification Exam: https://wiki.mef.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=75990347 - has a pretty good list of self-study material, don't worry you might have read a lot of those books already. adam