Software Defined Networks

[patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)]

I tell everyone we had SDNs in the 90s.

But we called it â??expect scriptsâ??.

:-)

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TTFN,
patrick


> On Dec 4, 2019, at 9:41 PM, Jennifer Rexford <jrex at cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> 
> SDN is definitely an overloaded and confusing term that is used inconsistently.  Here are a few attempts to explain:
> 
> - â??The Road to SDN: An Intellectual History of Programmable Networksâ?? (ACM Queue, December 2013)
>   https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327 <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2560327>
> 
> - â??Abstractions for Software-Defined Networksâ?? (CACM, October 2014)
>    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/sdn-abstractions.pdf>
> 
> - â??From Ethane to SDN and Beyondâ?? (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>
> 
> â?? Jen
> 
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:56 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com <mailto:rod.beck at 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. 
>> 
>> 
>> Roderick Beck
>> VP of Business Development
>> United Cable Company
>> www.unitedcablecompany.com <http://www.unitedcablecompany.com/>
>> New York City & Budapest
>> rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com <mailto:rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com>
>> 36-70-605-5144
> 

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