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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.
http://xkcd.com/927/
That'd be great. It's not what the article is talking about or what network virtualization is, is all...
"Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
Standards are so wonderful...they're so many of them to choose from
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
something thats already had a standard open source implementation for quite some time now. why the linux foundation has agreed to participate in any of this is beyond me; the platinum level open-for-business vendors include assholes like:
Mircosoft, who after the open documents fiasco should be barred from open-anything just out of common-sense.
Cisco, remember VRRP and CARP? yep, that cisco.
Juniper, currently being investigated for stock backdating and being sued for misclassifying unix administrators as "lab trolls" to skirt hourly compensation. this does just fine: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/wiki/index.php/VDE im sure OpenDayLight includes new features like lock in, collusion, price fixing, stonewalling, and empty promises.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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.