Finally a programmable Internet
Last week we announced PacketFabric’s plans to merge with Unitas Global. I started to write a few thoughts down and per norm, if you know me, it grew and I just couldn’t stop writing and talking. There's a great reason to make this move and I can’t be happier to add Patrick, Grant and the whole Unitas and INAP crew to PacketFabric. We are much stronger with them as a company, community and product portfolio. This move has really put into play a goal that I’ve had for my entire career: A fully programmable Internet.
Instead of my super long post here, I put it into a blog entry (fair warning: put on the fuzzy slippers, grab a beverage and sit down ... I was feeling chatty) and thankfully I had a ton of help from Carole Gridley and Ken Gray. There's a lot I wanted to get across in that tome as the industry is at an inflection point, as a long-time friend told me to watch for. For the last decade or more, the industry has been confused, there have been a large number of micro-hype-waves, a ton of marketing and investment efforts in patches of the quilt and this isn't your Grandpa's Internet any more.
As you'll read, there’s a lot of thought and strategy behind the companies coming together. We have a really big goals to positively disrupt the industry and have become the true NaaS of the industry with this move.
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Giant, fully-distributed packet flingers? Check. Programmable routers? Check. Fully private and secure business Internet? Check. New construct of the internet architecture = cloud core? Check. Full real-time, on-demand programmable control of a network of the big three: provisioning, telemetry, accounting ... check, check, check. Complete rethinking of the OSI model and the internet architecture: BAM!
PacketFabric is the full answer to software defined networking (SDN). I have no idea why any business or partner would own, manage and operate their own network at this point. This is the way the Internet is supposed to be <just couldn't resist>
Great to see this moving to commmercil status
ICF Credentialed Leadership and Executive Coach | Former Cisco VP | NACD Certified Board Director and Member | Corporate Advisor | CEO
2 年Keep on disrupting Dave!
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2 年Big, deliberate step, Dave Ward - congrats on orchestrating and executing with such resolution
Distinguished Engineer @ Arrcus
2 年Considering that for most enterprise sites their customers and major clouds are just one IXP hop away why would any enterprise still want to do private WAN of any sort these days ? Very nice blog article and cool pictures but somehow not visible in PeeringDB records - why ? Let's see how all of this will change when hyperscalers start to offer their flavors of NaaS - some are just around the corner :) But at the end of the day if you are trying to fix how SDWANs are architected today I think there could be some traction if done well ! All the best Dave !!!
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2 年All the best Dave!