Archive for November 2012

Network Virtualization: Past, Present & Future

Virtualizing the physical network and treating the logical networks differently based on the business needs and security policies have been around for multiple decades. The technologies available to create such segmentations are different for different areas of the network. For example, in the Local Area Networks (LANs),

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Unraveling Physical Infrastructure for Large Cloud Service Providers

My last commentary addressed why the physical and virtual networking technologies within datacenters will have distinct paths of evolution going forward. Both spaces will see substantial new products and capabilities and there will be innovations around intelligently connecting the two. Since the two spaces will inevitably coexist, it

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