Will SDN be a key component?
The hardware makes the software possible but disappears quickly from view.
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My “What Is Layer-2 and Why Do You Need It?” blog post generated numerous replies, including this one:
Pretend you are a device receiving a stream of bits. After you receive some inter-frame spacing bits, whatever comes next is the 2nd layer; whether that is Ethernet, native IP, CLNS/CLNP, whatever.
Not exactly. IP (or CLNS or CLNP) is always a layer-3 protocol regardless of where in the frame it happens to be, and some layer-2 protocols have no header (apart from inter-frame spacing and start-of-frame indicator).
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