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The Future of P4, Revisited
The P4 Workshop was a couple weeks ago, and as General Chair, I went into it with a fair amount of trepidation. My concern was that Intel’s announcement…
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Larry Peterson
How SDN Came to the Wide Area
While the early success of SDN was in local area networks (and particularly the special case of datacenter networks) it didn’t take too long before it…
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Bruce Davie
Private 5G: As Easy As Wi-Fi*
*Some Restrictions May Apply. It should come as no surprise that designing/implementing Private 5G is not exactly the same as deploying/operating…
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Larry Peterson
Was MPLS Traffic Engineering Worthwhile?
One of the topics we keep coming back to at Systems Approach is “when should a feature be made part of a platform”. This question is at the heart of…
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Bruce Davie
RPC vs TCP (Redux)
We have been writing about the possibilities for a request/response transport paradigm (as an alternative to TCP's reliable byte stream) since the…
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Larry Peterson
Putting Large Language Models in Context
In recent weeks it’s been hard to avoid the buzz around the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and particularly the recent launch of ChatGPT. There…
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Bruce Davie
It's TCP vs. RPC All Over Again
We’ve written previously about the fact that the Internet seems to be missing a standard protocol for the request/response paradigm, with repeated…
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Larry Peterson
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