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Title: The choice for Software-defined Networking: Cisco?s tunnel vision or HP?s wide open vistas?
Post by: Brian Dao on January 31, 2015, 03:01:52 am

The choice for Software-defined Networking: Cisco?s tunnel vision or HP?s wide open vistas?

By Yanick Pouffary, Distinguished Technologist and Chief Technologist, HP Network and Mobility Services

 

If you accept a restricted definition of what SDN is, you run the risk of limiting what it can do for your network. And that would be a shame, because SDN can do a lot of very powerful things.

 

Important Update, 1.27.15: Cisco has announced some changes to licensing structures that may affect their SDN products this week, but make no mistake: this doesn?t change the underlying issue around the lack of true openness in Cisco?s SDN approach. Follow us on Twitter, #SwitchtoHP and #HPNetworking, to keep up with the latest on HP?s open SDN networking innovations.

Source: The choice for Software-defined Networking: Cisco?s tunnel vision or HP?s wide open vistas? (http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Networking/The-choice-for-Software-defined-Networking-Cisco-s-tunnel-vision/ba-p/178387)