http://gigaom.com/2012/06/21/is-openflow-an-answer-looking-for-a-problem/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/06/21/is-openflow-an-answer-looking-for-a-problem/#comment-860141 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:33:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=535265#comment-860141 While OpenFlow is admittedly not fully mature yet, the ONF is gradually releasing a series of use cases for OpenFlow based on client feedback. These should help clarify the types of problems OpenFlow can solve. I don’t think Google, Verizon, Deutche Telecom, and others would be investing their time in the ONF if they didn’t have use cases in mind. It also sounds like Equinex is supporting OpenFlow in this article, by saying that they’re looking for a standardized way to manage multi-vendor environments. For more on standards based solutions and SDN/OpenFlow, see the ODIN materials at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/networking/solutions/odin.html

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/06/21/is-openflow-an-answer-looking-for-a-problem/#comment-855471 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:40:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=535265#comment-855471 Reblogged this on Virtualized Geek and commented:
Openflow was a secondary topic for me in this video. The real meat was Arista talking about Internet Bypass. The idea that they can or will create a broker service that will be “Cloudified” or orchaestrated to set up peer to peer BGP connections between the provider and customer is a serious piece of innovation. I would have loved to hear someone from a cloud data center provider comment on this technology.
It’s one thing to talk about orchestrating servers, hypervisors and datacenter networking but I have to imagine providers are loath to let cloud tools automate the creation of BGP routing at the edge of their network. This is where you can break the Internet but I see the appeal. I would have liked to be in this Q & A.

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