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Real-World Open Networking. Part 4 – Interoperability: Problems with API’s

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In our last post we looked at different general patterns of standards compliance in Open Network solutions. In this post we drill down another layer to look at interoperability at the Application Program Interface (API) level, which creates issues at a level beyond standards. As we’ve mentioned previously, network equipment has been focused on interface […]

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Real-World Open Networking. Part 5: Dissonance between Networks and Software Domains

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In our last post we finished up a detailed examination of different aspects of Interoperability. In this post, we will analyse the different mindsets between traditional networking domains and software development domains, explain why there is often built-in dissonance. Whilst Open Network solutions require the integration of network and software components and practices, at the

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Real-world Open Networking. Part 3 – Interoperability: Problems with Standards

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In our last post we unpacked Interoperability, including Open Standards. Continuing this theme, we will look at how solution developers implement standards compliance and the problems that arise. Mandating that vendors (and internal systems) comply with Open Standards is a strategy used by organisations to drive interoperability. The assumption is that Open Standards compliant components

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Real-world Open Networking. Part 2 – Interoperability: The Holy Grail

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In our last post we described the attributes of an Open Network Solution. In this post we unpack what surely is the “Holy Grail” of Open Networks: Interoperability. Interoperability is defined as: Bottom line, interoperability means that I can freely substitute components, i.e. If I have Component X in my Open Networking solution, then in

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Real World Open Networking. Part 1 – Unpacking Openness

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In our last post in this series, we completed our coverage of the third domain of Open Networking, that of Open Network Integration. To wrap up our overall Open Networking series, we begin a set of posts that address the practical reality of delivering Open Network solutions in the current marketplace, and particularly focusing on

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Time Flies When You’re Not Blogging

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So I was looking over my last few posts (as I’d realized I haven’t blogged in a while), and I was surprised to find that in the last three months, I’d only blogged four times. Just once a month, if you ignore the first of these four posts which was an update post, versus a

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On Hot Tubs and Getting Older

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Next year, I’ll be 50. What the f…? I remember being a young man in my early 20’s, and thinking 30 was old. My 20’s and 30’s were probably my peak, at least physically. To even consider being 50 was… no, it wasn’t even considered. It just wasn’t an age to understand. Now, a couple

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