Trends and Issues in Softwarization of Networks: What's In, What's Out

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:

• Overview
• Selecting the Right Problems
• Gartner Hype Cycle 2017
• Trend 1: SDN to Disaggregation
• Disaggregation: Black Box to White Box
• White Box Switches
• 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
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Problems w Virtual Machines
• Trend 7: Virtualization to Containerization
• Kata Containers
• Standards are Slow
• Standards are not Open
• Trend 8: Standards to Open Source SW
• Blockchains
• Trend 9: Centralized to Distributed
• Blockchains
• Examples of Centralized Systems
• Networking Applications of Blockchains
• Smart Everything
• What's Smart?
• Trend 10: Smart to Intelligent
• Trend 11: Managed to Self-Driven Networks
• Intent-Based Policy Management
• Related Papers
• Related Talks/Class Lectures

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