The Network of the Future

[NancyKnows]

 In our mobile environment, keeping up with customer demands requires us to continue to advance technology. Innovation require a more robust network in the future but what does that look like? Richard Tanner shares the benefits of software-defined networking in his recent post on the AT&T Network Exchange Blog “Building the network of tomorrow”.

What do you think about SDN? Let’s chat.

[Dave_DTV]

I'm actually pretty excited to learn more about SDN. It doesn't seem that complicated to be honest, however, one thing I was thinking was that since the control plane is centralized, routing could be dynamically modified using AiML and real-time analytics for the best/fastest path possible. Unfortunately I'm not able to experiment with it at the moment though since I'm a bit limited in what I can do in GNS3 with just a laptop.