While the early success of SDN was in local area networks (and particularly the special case of datacenter networks) it didn’t take too long before it made its impact in the wide area. The WAN applications of SDN can be further subdivided: there was the application of SDN to traffic engineering of inter-datacenter networks and then there is what came to be known as SD-WAN.
We have been writing about the possibilities for a request/response transport paradigm (as an alternative to TCP's reliable byte stream) since the 1990s, and yet we seem to keep finding new angles to approach the problem. We’re not sure yet if there is a whole book in this topic, but we certainly have enough material for this week’s newsletter and probably more to come.
VMWare’s Chris Ramming discusses how to plan collaborative research between universities and companies, how researchers should tackle twenty-first century problems