Comments on: With Nicira buy, VMware claims cloud freedom of choice http://gigaom.com/2012/07/23/with-nicira-buy-vmware-claims-cloud-freedom-of-choice/ Sat, 18 May 2013 09:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: twospruces http://gigaom.com/2012/07/23/with-nicira-buy-vmware-claims-cloud-freedom-of-choice/#comment-868031 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:14:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545521#comment-868031 @Keith, thanks. WAN bandwidth today is generally leased and the more you want the more you pay. Is there a default assumption that pay-per-drink underpins SDN on the WAN? Imagine an application wanting to consume some WAN – does the service provider need to reconfigure the service to enable the desired throughput? Or does the static service model continue?
What’s your view.
Cheers.

]]> By: Keith Townsend http://gigaom.com/2012/07/23/with-nicira-buy-vmware-claims-cloud-freedom-of-choice/#comment-868029 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:03:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545521#comment-868029 @twospruces the way I understand it, in theory the abstraction of the network will continue down the stack to the WAN so you can build applications that are even less reliant on the access layer. Similar to how ATM has made way to MPLS when it comes to QoS. In theory you should have CoS/QoS builtin and programmable from the application layer.

I think we are a long way from it.

]]> By: twospruces http://gigaom.com/2012/07/23/with-nicira-buy-vmware-claims-cloud-freedom-of-choice/#comment-867993 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:25:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545521#comment-867993 I can handle this for inside the datacenter, but can someone in the know please explain how this SDN will change how service providers deliver service on the WAN?

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