[161097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SDN - Killer Apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Phaal)
Mon Feb 25 16:13:14 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130225101056.GA30452@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:13:00 -0800
From: Peter Phaal <peter.phaal@gmail.com>
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2013-02-25 13:53 +0530), Glen Kent wrote:
>
>> I understand that this is just some bit of what we can do with SDN. The
>> amount of what all can be done is limitless. So, a question to all out
>> there - Is my understanding of what can be achieved with SDN, is correct?
>
> Frankly I don't think there is single answer.
>
> From my point of view I don't see much use for it as general purpose SP.
There is potential for balancing to be a killer application for SDN in
the service provider space:
http://blog.sflow.com/2013/02/sdn-and-large-flows.html
What do people think?
