[c-nsp] sdn/nfv

[Vitkovský Adam]

I think vendors have grasped this emerging opportunity very well. 
Take Cisco for example the openflow APIs are available to the majority of their high-end products and they have virtualized their OSes as well. 
 
I know for a fact that majority of SPs use some kind of NFV already. 
However I'd be interested to know how many SP the use SDN. 

How I understand it is that SDN is network that orchestrates/provisions itself based on the traffic flows or application signaled requirements of course within operator's defined boundaries for a given service/customer/application. 
NFV on the other hand is using "cheap" processing power to offload network functions that don't have "high" pps requirements. 
The first think that comes to mind is control-plane (like Mark is doing with RRs) also some data-plane functions can be offloaded to servers like CGN or FW. 
And the nice think about NFV is that since you can do it in a "cloud" if designed correctly it should never go down. 


adam

> -----Original Message-----
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> Aaron
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:33 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] sdn/nfv
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> I hope you all don't mind the off-topic question in this cisco mail list.
> you all are such a broad and smart and experienced group that I wanted to
> reach out to everyone out there in the trenches to get a feel for what you all
> know about sdn/nfv and do you see any movement on it yet, etc.
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> I have been reading a little bit about sdn/nfv/openflow and it seems that
> these are radical, new ideas that seem that they could really change a lot
> about what we've know about networks for the past decades.
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> Is anyone out there yet working with any sdn controllers?.... or nfv objects in
> servers. or openflow?
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> Does sdn/nfv scare the heck out of equipment manufacturers ?
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> Aaron
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