<div dir="ltr">"SDN" is a broad brush.<div><br></div><div>Here's a "concrete example" of using software to do interesting network tricks. I'm biased, of course.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-1-fighting-fib">https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-1-fighting-fib</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-2-balancing-requests">https://www.fastly.com/blog/building-and-scaling-fastly-network-part-2-balancing-requests</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ryan</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:58 AM Rod Beck <<a href="mailto:rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com">rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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Can someone explain what is all the fuss? SDN is like the latest telecom craze but the articles do a poor job of explaining the advantages. I seek concrete examples.
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