Vendors Combine To Standardize Virtual Networking With OpenDayLight

alphadogg writes "Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Most of the major vendors working on SDN have joined in on OpenDaylight, a project being announced this week that will develop an open-source SDN framework. The vendors, which include Cisco Systems, VMware, Juniper Networks and Ericsson, will contribute software and engineers to the effort, according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, which is hosting the project." A story at Slash DataCenter on the initiative gives some background, too, about the slippery concept of software defined networking.

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[drakaan]

That'd be great. It's not what the article is talking about or what network virtualization is, is all...

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[heezer7]

http://xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]

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[Svartalf]

Damn, got beat out...

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[Svartalf]

Standards are so wonderful...they're so many of them to choose from [xkcd.com]

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Embrace, Extend and Extinguish

[Argon]

Is not a strategy unique to Microsoft. Cisco proves that it can also play the game. Cisco is likely the biggest loser if SDN takes off in a big way. This is Cisco's way of making sure they're in the play with their proprietary extensions.

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[Argon]

An article that expresses the same skepticism:

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=5A2C0BF6-9626-6CF9-119A812483E44613 [news.idg.no]

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[h8sg8s]

Cisco *invented* this particular game in the networking industry. How else could they charge premium prices for commodity gear running community standards all these years? They stand to loose their shirt.

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[jon3k]

Not exactly [cisco.com]