When we posted our article about modernizing the edge, in which we commented on the benefits of disaggregation, one wag on Twitter asked “Does this mean disaggregation has been successful somewhere?” This week we set out to answer that question. Our most recent post focussed on the opportunity to modernize and unify edge routing by applying SDN principles to the problem. In discussing the benefits of such an approach, I observed that disaggregation of networking has already happened in the data center, and that it would be good to bring those benefits to the edge. But that one
Great to see the SONiC reference. Many enterprises are also now adopting SONiC and we are starting to see that shift sooner than we expected.