Skip to Main Content
SDN and NFV Simplified: A Visual Guide to Understanding Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization
book

SDN and NFV Simplified: A Visual Guide to Understanding Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization

by Jim Doherty
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
400 pages
8h 34m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from SDN and NFV Simplified: A Visual Guide to Understanding Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization

20. What’s Wrong With the Network We Have?

One of the most important shifts in networking technology has been the trend toward user-developed applications. Whether it’s a phone application, corporate financial tool, or web widget, we have arrived at a place where the user community is now a legitimate creative force and a significant driver of application development rather than being just passive consumers.

Users are now so accustomed to this that they are no longer willing to wait for, or completely rely on, the company or large suppliers and vendors to create the tools and applications they want to use, and have shown not only a willingness but also an expectation that they will go find (or even create) the tools they need. In some cases, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Large-Scale Network Design: Best practices for designing elegant, scalable, and programmable networks with OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, and BGP routing protocols

Large-Scale Network Design: Best practices for designing elegant, scalable, and programmable networks with OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, and BGP routing protocols

Russ White / Alvaro Retana
Storage Networks Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE, Second Edition

Storage Networks Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE, Second Edition

Wolfgang Müller-Friedt Ulf Troppens Rainer Wolafka, Nils Haustein Rainer Erkens

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134307398Purchase book