Mavericks invent future Internet where Cisco is meaningless
April 17, 2012 | Source: Wired
Silicon Valley startup Nicira wants to make Cisco irrelevant, taking the brains out of network hardware and moving them into software, to provide a far easier way of building and modifying and rebuilding the networks that run the largest services on the web and beyond, using “software-defined networking” (SDN).
The Nicira platform is already used by AT&T, eBay, Japanese telecom NTT, financial giant Fidelity, and Rackspace. The platform is so attractive to these companies because today’s hardware networks are ridiculously difficult to modify.
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by Dan
The idea sounds interesting, however virtualized network components still requires the same infrastructure as physical and ultimately resides on physical infrastructure the follows Cisco LIKE rules for routing, segragation and protection of the resources. Maybe there is a gel out there that is smarter than I know of right now. The company mentioned is calling the HW that it depends on to work “legacy”. Oh and Mainframes are no longer relevant… LOL
“An NVP Gateway is primarily deployed to integrate with physical servers and legacy VLANs or for connecting virtual networks to the Internet.”