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Re:Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone by hguant on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:59PM (#19903305)
Looking at how Argo is presented (from the blog post), it seems like you've got a really strong use case for SDN, if you're not already using that already. As far as I can tell, dynamically updating routes across an internal network is one of the best non-internal-to-data-center uses of SDN - can you expand a little more on this, if you do use it, or on why you don't, if I'm completely off base?

Cheers, argo seems like an interesting project.

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Re:Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone by matsur on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:21PM (#19903537)
Yes, Argo is very "SDN" under the covers :)

The data plane runs on our x86 fleet and its control plane is driven by custom route computation and propagation systems (discussed a little more in the post). We're excited to talk more about the technical underpinnings of Argo in the future.

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Re:Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone by hguant on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:41PM (#19903727)
>Yes, Argo is very "SDN" under the covers :)

Ha I was reading the post again thinking about how you all did this, and it boiled down to OpenFlow/OVS/SDN magic, or you REALLY went all in on Cisco offerings.

>We're excited to talk more about the technical underpinnings of Argo in the future.

Looking foward to this update, thanks for the response!

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