Hi Farhad,
About what I've heard from vendors they generally support OpenFlow just
as a plugin of their systems. This is not true, for example, for Brocade
that belives in OpenFlow making of it their new key feature functionality.
What I generaly see from companies like CISCO or Juniper is that they
say: ok, OF is a good protocol for research and we support it as a
plugin in our systems, but we've been working on networks for years,
thus we can do everything better. Morover, they distribute part of the
intelligence locally on the devices, that actually don't cost less than
a "common" device. Most of the times SDN support is given in the device
OS as a new (sometimes) optional features and for this, most of the
times, you could pay the device also more!
Cheers,
Luca
Il 19/05/2013 04:24, Farhad Ibrahim ha scritto:
Hey folks,
Perhaps a silly question: I am kinda confused because i was thinking
that OpenFlow wouldn't be possible without Merchant Silicon. This
because the Cisco`s and Brocade`s wouldn't allow the support of
OpenFlow on their devices? I mean why would they (especially Cisco)
when custom hardware and features is their core business right? Can
some one please explain this to me?
Nick McKeown said that Merchant Silicon was a revolution in itself, at
the ONS: https://www.youtube....h?v=W734gLC9-dw
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W734gLC9-dw> 3:05. Lets say Merchant
Silicon didn't exist, what kind of an impact would that have on
OpenFlow? Would the Cisco`s not support OpenFlow and thus we`d be stuck?
Thanks in advance!
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