SDN and Openflow: Effects of Disaggregation

Hi all, continuing from last week, today I want to emphasize the importance of new open controllers being developed and deployed as part of the journey of various Webscale companies.

Please refer to the following presentation by Google in 2015 at ONS. This shows the journey of Google as the datacenters moved through five generations. Google had since made quite a few software public.

If you want to read instead of watching this video, I suggest you follow this link, right here.

Google’s data centers needed five different controllers and that was highlighted in a presentation in 2016, please check the complete story here.

They worked hard to create solutions to the problems only they were facing and strived to build custom hardware, running custom software, which they made open, shared with the world and shaped the future of networking.

Next week, we will talk about why they ended with the scale problem? What was their business model, which the telecom operators could not understand or replicate?

So stay tuned.