Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent

Since opening up our draft of the 7th edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach for comments, we have not yet been inundated with feedback, but we did get a very helpful comment about our perspective on network operations, a subject to which we have devoted an entire chapter.

Both Larry and I have learned over the years that operations are important and yet the topic is frequently neglected when teaching about networks.

Yet the topic is important enough that we even wrote a book on Edge Cloud Operations: As you can tell from the title, that covers more than network operations, but networking is an important part of any cloud. And since we had that material already to hand, it naturally formed the basis of what...

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