Despite months of rumors and speculation, the networking industry’s most powerful and influential vendor, Cisco Systems, is continuing to keep its plans for software-defined networking (SDN) largely to itself. In an exclusive interview with Network Computing during this week’s Open Networking Summit (ONS), Shashi Kiran, senior director of market management at Cisco, also an ONS member, says that OpenFlow and SDN are both so nascent that it should not be looked at as an either/or situation — OpenFlow or not OpenFlow — but as OpenFlow “and” other approaches.
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