{"id":895,"date":"2017-03-16T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/?p=895"},"modified":"2017-11-25T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T20:01:46","slug":"linux-networking-its-not-just-sdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/linux-networking-its-not-just-sdn\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux networking: It\u2019s not just SDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes, Cumulus Linux gets confused for an SDN (software-defined networking) solution. In conversations with potential customers, I\u2019ve noticed that some of them find it difficult to distinguish between SDN, open networking and Cumulus Linux. When I talk to network engineers, I start by clarifying the SDN buzzword head on. The term gets overused, and is often defined by other confusing acronyms or marketing jargon. To complicate things further, SDN is often thought of as equivalent to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/getsatisfaction.cumulusnetworks.com\/cumulus\/topics\/cumulus-os-vs-openflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenFlow<\/a>, which is flawed in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>See the rest of the blog post over on CumulusNetworks.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cumulusnetworks.com\/blog\/linux-sdn-networking\/\">https:\/\/cumulusnetworks.com\/blog\/linux-sdn-networking\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes, Cumulus Linux gets confused for an SDN (software-defined networking) solution. In conversations with potential customers, I\u2019ve noticed that some of them find it difficult to distinguish between SDN, open networking and Cumulus Linux. When I talk to network engineers, I start by clarifying the SDN buzzword head on. The term gets overused, and is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/linux-networking-its-not-just-sdn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux networking: It\u2019s not just SDN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanaugh.pro\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}