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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> 36-70-605-5144 >

