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Short Take: The Broadcom SDKLT Announcement

My first short take at The Network Collective is up discussing the Broadcom SDKLT announcement. Does this really mean the end of vendors or network engineering? You can guess my answer, or you can watch the video and hear it for yourself.

History of Networking: Policy with Joel Halpern

Policy at Internet scale is a little understood, and difficult (potentially impossible) to solve problem. Joel Halpern joins the History of Networking over at the Network Collective to talk about the history of policy in the Internet at large, and networked systems in general.

Enterprise versus Provider?

Two ideas that are widespread, and need to be addressed—

FANG (read this hyper/web/large scale network operators) have very specific needs; they run custom-built single-purpose software in a very big scale. So all the really want/need are dumb boxes and smart people. … Enterprise have another view, they want smart boxes run by dumb people.

First, there is no enterprise, there are no service providers. There are problems, and there are solutions.

When I was young (and even more foolish than I am now) I worked for a big vendor. When this big vendor split the enterprise and service provider teams, I thought this kindof made sense. After all, providers have completely different requirements, and should therefore run with completely different technologies, equipment, and software. When I thought of providers in those days, I thought of big transit network operators, like AT&T, and Verizon, and Orange, and Level3, and Worldcom, and… The world has changed since then, but our desire to split the world into two neat halves has not.

If you want to split the world into two halves, split it this way: There are companies who consider the network an asset, and companies that consider the network a Continue reading

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