Re: [Paper] B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined

[Arturo Servin <arturo.servin () gmail com>]

        Well, you just made my point.

        Just change "cold" for "cyber".

/as

On 8/17/13 9:26 PM, Jayram Déshpandé wrote:
> SDN is not a new concept at all.
>
> Infact since ARPANET days, the notion of centralized control plane had a
> lot of traction. But with Cold war around, It made more sense to push the
> control plane intelligence into individual decision points (routers ,
> switches , et . al. ). Considering the possibility of the commies taking
> down some part of the early Internet, the remaining partitioned network
> could still survive as the rest of the decision points could converge and
> act as independent network snippets.
>
> -Jay.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:
>
> > On 8/17/2013 7:14 PM, Arturo Servin wrote:
> > >       Hacker will love SDN ...
> >
> > Yes.  Traditional SDN is big, flat layer-2 network with global
> > mac-address resolution, and a big fat Java applet managing the adjacency
> > tables.
> >
> > What could *possibly* go wrong?
> >
> > Jeff