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