Greg Ferro
Over twenty plus years, Greg has worked Sales, Technical and IT Management but mostly he does Network Engineering and Design. Today he works as a freelance consultant for F100 companies in the UK focusing on Data Centers, Security and Operational Automation. He does actual networking during the day and has clouds in his pockets. He believes that cloud computing is just a new focus on technical operations, that software quality is vital and networking is the unrealized future of everything because it's all about bandwidth. At night he finds it cathartic to write about networking at Network Compting and also at his blog . Because someone asked, he also talks about networking at http://packetpushers.net. He is known for practical opinions, technical viewpoints and being graceful when getting it wrong. Mostly.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
