http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2856460 A Purpose-built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford 網路設備廠的噩夢, 連internet-facing的router也要自幹了 - we quickly concluded that a centralized view of global demand would allow us to make better decisions more rapidly than would be possible with a fully decentralized protocol. >>全域智能 - Our biggest frustration was that hardware and software were typically bundled together into a single platform, which basically left you at the mercy of certain vendors to come up with any of the new features you needed to meet requirements already confronting you. >>不爽 -What's more, buying a bundled solution from a vendor meant buying all the capabilities any customer of that vendor might want, with respect to both hardware and software. >> 一張專輯只要其中幾首歌的概念 -we realized decentralized protocols wouldn't necessarily give us predictability and control over o