How will Adaptive IP change your IP networks?

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There is a disruptive trend towards virtualization of applications, services, and disaggregation (separation of hardware and software) of infrastructure. Combine this trend with the never-ending need for bandwidth, scaling and flexibility in network deployments, and we see an entirely new approach to network architecture emerging. This force of disruptive change in the IP networking space has separated the IP edge router into a virtualized Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG), a merchant silicon-based L2/L3 switch, and an SDN-oriented control plane. It requires compute resources to be located further out on the edge of the network to help address the scale and services related to 5G and IoT applications. Operational costs needed to perform at scale must also be considered.

The entire end-to-end network must be agile to enable compute, storage and networking resources when and where required by leveraging programmable resources that don’t require physical reconfiguration to accommodate evolving service demands. This has led to open source discussions around open APIs, such as NETCONF/YANG, routing protocol extensions and enhancements, path computation, remote procedure calls, and so on

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