End-to-end network programmability

Posted Sep 11, 2020 18:01 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: End-to-end network programmability

> ... but that much of the network-development world is focused on interoperability, which is more of a concern when you are building things bottom-up and need to ensure that it all works well together. Today's large networks tend to be "somewhat homogeneous" that use similar equipment throughout. If you can express the desired behavior from the top "such that it is consistent across all of the devices, interoperability will matter, but much less than it used to" because the devices should work together by design, effectively.

I'm not sure what "large" means here. "Large company network", OK. The Internet likely never because of https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alwn.net+ossification