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Software Defined Networks
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Software Defined Networks

by Paul Goransson, Chuck Black
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 32m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 13

SDN Futures

Abstract

Chapter 13 begins with a review of the current state of affairs of SDN, mapping SDN’s history and projected future to the well-known Gartner Hype Cycle. While it is easy to conclude that the turbulence and some of the pessimism surrounding SDN in 2013 reflected a trough of disillusionment for SDN, it is also easy to remain optimistic about its future. It will surely take years to determine just what forms of SDN turn out to be dominant in the data centers of the future. Chapter 13 argues that the optimism for SDN’s future derives not only from its impact on its most often-cited area of application, the data center, but also for the many areas of networking where we have only begun to consider the SDN toolkit. In ...

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ISBN: 9780124166752