ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt shares the personal experiences that led him to a career in networking. So how did I end up in the networking business? It all started with babysitting. I found myself as a young babysitter alone with an AM radio after the kids went to bed, and even in Madison, Wisconsin, […]
Dan Pitt discusses how SDN plays a role in carrier Wi-Fi networks. My most recent contributed article for Light Reading addresses the role that SDN plays in carrier Wi-Fi, especially as the Internet of Things gains more steam. Below is an excerpt from that piece, and the full article can be found here.
Nov. 4–8, 2013 / Spirent, Sunnyvale, California This is the fourth private Open Networking Foundation Interoperability PlugFest event and the first hosted at Spirent Communications in Sunnyvale. The Testing and Interop Working group is tasked to coordinate two PlugFest Events per year. The event is open to ONF members (and partner Universities) only. Press and […]
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the hottest new technology in networking. ONF member company Google is running its backbone network traffic on an SDN network built using OpenFlow. Nicira was acquired by ONF member company VMware for $1.26 billion to accelerate the adoption of network virtualization in the data center.
I recently had a conversation with industry analyst Nick Lippis about why SDN represents such a fundamental change in networking, one we have not seen in a long time. Nick likes to think about Networking Epochs and we related them to Computing Epochs, counting and matching three of each:
