Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan
by bitops on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:40PM
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He's right - this is definitely where the network needs to go. When we can manipulate network topology as easily as we can provision cloud-based servers today, we'll unimaginably more flexible than we are today.
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Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan
by donavanm on Saturday October 05, 2013 @06:05AM
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Virtual topology. Someone is still running cables at the end of the day. And fat switch fabrics have some scary cabling indeed.
Re:Facebook Operations Chief Reveals Open Networking Plan
by johnbellone on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:19PM
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I was able to see a preview of the latest OpenStack a friend of mine has running on his cluster and was quite impressed where they are at currently. Although I would much rather see solid API and have communities (or startups) build products on top barebones installations like this.