Bad Network Design – Availability of a system is mainly measured with two parameters. Mean time between failure (MTBF) and Mean time to repair (MTTR) MTBF is calculated as average time between failures of a system. MTTR is the average time required to repair a failed component (Link, node, device in networking terms) Operator mistakes […]
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I’ve been much amused byBi-Modal IT that Gartner coughed up a few months back. Bimodal IT refers to having two modes of IT, each designed to develop and deliver information- and technology-intensive services in its own way. Mode 1 is traditional, emphasizing scalability, efficiency, safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is nonsequential, emphasizing agility and speed. […]
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Writing OpenFlow controllers that interact with physical hardware is harder than most people think. Apart from developing a distributed system (which is hard in itself), you have to deal with limitations of hardware forwarding pipelines, differences in forwarding hardware, imprecise abstractions (most vendors still support single OpenFlow table per switch), and resulting bloated flow tables.
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