[AusNOG] SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-MED: Re: Firewall

[Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral]

No one said it was a 'unique characteristic'.  What SDN / NFV provides are 
options that you wouldn't necessarily have with a hardware device.  SDN / 
NFV solutions will mature rapidly as the market demands and there is no 
reason they wouldn't have the same reliability as hardware devices.
  
 Ultimately SDN / NFV has the potential to be *more* reliable provided that 
its based on open sourced code bases that aren't controlled by single 
vendors who may or may not employ solid software development processes.  
Due to the lack of transparency you can never be sure.
  
 Of course many people don't/won't agree with me and completely fine, I may 
even not agree with my current viewpoint at some future point in history 
based on experiences from now until then ;)
  
  Regards,

Kristoffer Sheather
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 From: "Robert Hudson" <hudrob at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:16 PM
To: "Tim Raphael" <raphael.timothy at gmail.com>
Cc: kris at cloudcentral.com.au, "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" 
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-MED: Re: Firewall   
   On 25 February 2015 at 12:34, Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com> 
wrote:   "Fairly stable" being my key point - I've come across many a bug 
that can't be worked around nor explained. The developers are community 
backed and doing a great job by I get the impression the quality isn't 
quite at the same level as the commercial offerings. For a free product 
though, it is rather good.
   
 I've come across more show-stopping bugs in traditional hardware-centric 
network infrastructure than I have in software-based network 
infrastructure.  That said, I've also used a lot more hardware-centric kit, 
and have used it for a lot longer.  But stability is certainly not a unique 
characteristic of traditional networking over SDN or NFV, etc...


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