Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless

NOC-Ninja

A friend sent me this article today. What do you guys think?

Mavericks Invent Future Internet Where Cisco Is Meaningless | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Slowhand

I think it's yet another Wired article proclaiming that hyperbole is the best thing ever.

shodown

Open flow type technologies are going to take off. Cisco already has performanced based routing on IOS already. Im' not sure who the dominate player is going to be, but it opens the door for some new people to come in and make there marks. Routing can be done on normal boxes and ou can have them scattered over your network and have 1 box control them all. OSPF/BGP are 20 years old and its time to upgrade in a since, but at the same time many things have come around and claim to be the next big thing, then they disapear.

Roguetadhg

Even if it did become the next big thing, there will still be jobs and careers maintaining the equipment that's already bought. Sure, may not be the latest and greatest.

No matter what, once you stop learning you're dead in the water

xbuzz

Looks like someone is buying the hype (literally). VMware just acquired Nicira for $1.26bn.

VMware buys cloud infrastructure player Nicira Inc for US$1.26bn in cash and equity - Ireland’s business and technology news service – Siliconrepublic.com

mapletune

Sounds interesting tbh, but a little disheartening considering that I just committed myself into learning network hardware. =/

xbuzz

As far as I understand it, it's not as if it will take many, if any, networking jobs away. What you learn in CCENT, CCNA etc, is all software. Cisco themselves say they are predominantly a software company.

Just because networks might become virtualized in the future, it just means there will be less hardware sales, not any less work to actually do on the command line.

Hardware is actually the easiest part of networking. Google themselves said, when they were making their own routers/switches, it was the software that was the hardest part to build.

Alot of servers these days are virtualized, and there is still the same need, if not more, for server admins etc.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong, of course.

dave330i

xbuzz wrote: »

Alot of servers these days are virtualized, and there is still the same need, if not more, for server admins etc.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong, of course.

Virtualized servers require less admin. There are less hardware to manage, servers are easier to deploy and easier to maintain. Easier to deploy is a double edge sword because it also leads to server sprawl.

networkjutsu

Listen to PacketPushers podcast. According to these experts, all the changes that we are seeing right now won't be in everyone's network right away. That said, they still recommend to go through the motions of learning the old fashioned networking. So SDN is just another technology that we need to add to our list of things to learn.

DevilWAH

Look at it this way, how many companies still run physical servers, run on windows 2003, or 100mb networks.

It was not all that long ago that Switches replaced hubs, and layer 3 switch became the norm and allowed networks to become what they are today.

Yes this looks interesting but it will be many years yet before the pioneers have tried it out, weeded out issues and it becomes (if it becomes) the standard.

technologies don't roll in over night an rewrite the landscape, Think of VMware and virtulisation, it was a niche product for years before it gathered the following it has now. Even with out things like this IT is ever changing and things you learn one day are out of date a few days later.

But at the heart its all the same, moving bits of data back and forth, its the same inside and operating system as it is on the cables that connected them together. There is nothing new hear, nothing. Newton had a new idea when he thought up gravity, no one else before had had such an idea. But this is just rehashing what is already there, in a cleaver and potential useful way, but there is nothing ground breaking or rewriting how Computers work. So I would not worry about what you learn getting out of date, just work on understanding how it all fits together.