Abstract We begin with developments that led to virtualization, network function virtualization, and disaggregation. How software-defined networking definition has changed due to disaggregation. The trend of DevOps and the slowness of the standardization activities has led the networking industry towards open source software and hardware. Open sourcing has now become the fastest way to introduce new research, idea, concept or technology. All these trends and their impact on networking research along several related myths and issues will be discussed in this talk.

This talk covers the following topics:

• Trend 1: SDN to Disaggregation
• Disaggregation: Black Box to White Box
• Trend 2: Separation of Control to Orchestration of Policies
• Trend 3: Clouds to Micro-Clouds
• Trend 4: Core to Edge Computing
• Trend 5: Services to Micro-Services
• Trend 6: Orchestration of Switches to Orchestration of Multi-Cloud
• OpenADN Multi-Cloud Management
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Problems with Virtual Machines
• Trend 7: Virtualization to Containerization
• Kata Containers
• Standards are Slow
• Trend 8: Standards to Open Source
• Blockchains
• Trend 9: Centralized to Decentralized
• Examples of Centralized Systems
• Ideas to Enhance Blockchains
• Decisions with Risk
• Can the Blockchains be Enhanced?
• Current Blockchain Process
• Trend 10: Smart to Intelligent Everything
• Edge AI
• Trend 11: AI to Explanable AI
• AI Everywhere Except Networks
• Trend 12: Managed to Self-Driven Networks
• Intent-Based Policy Management
• Related Papers
• Related Talks/Class Lectures

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