Here is the “defined” cloud software. In picaresque succession of initials and acronyms that plagues the world of computing, but there is an underground and almost hidden logic that, when revealed, says much of what he did not appear. The cloud that provides computing services and data storage needs simplification to make efficiency and become fast and light.
And this quickness and lightness (in English “agile”) is not possible with the current configuration of the protocols and technologies used by the Internet. “Not to mention – says Michael Strople, chairman of the MEF, Metro Ethernet Forum – that when we move to the next generation of network equipment, the current set of technologies will have to be radically revised.” Why not do it now, then? Here comes the idea of a “third channel”, a different way of organizing existing technologies, reaching a working model based on standards and interoperability mechanisms that allows to use the cloud itself as “software defined service” defined by the software. “It’s a vision that we are building for fifteen years – says Strople – and that is based on Carrier Ethernet, the technology that expands the protocols of the corporate network and brings them up to the carrier, allowing to extend outside the company computer services and security. ” The fact is that the world is changing.
Change the hot spots where we need more access, generally increases the need for speed, but above the cloud grows and grows the need for on-demand services. The value-added services outline scenarios in which the paradigm of the first Internet, open and interoperable, you must enrich horizontal standards (Ethernet Network Carrier of the second) and make an overall synthesis in which the cloud is simple, manageable in a unified manner through different environments and geographies. It needs a shared system of orchestration, management mechanisms of the life cycle of services and data, the ability to create end-to-end network services as planned.
Does one really need such a radical change and a “Holy Alliance” uniting all to create the third goal? “No doubt,” he says Corcom John Medamana, vice president of optical fiber part of AT & T. “The growth from 2007 to 2014 was nothing short of spectacular. The point of arrival, in 2020, it is expected with a growth factor of ten times than today. We are faster than Moore’s law: growing steadily for 35 years with a surge at this stage. ” Internet needs to evolve and move to a third model, but in reality was anything but steady in recent years. Depending on the “layer” you want to see, the lowest data or the most sophisticated part of the transmission of applications and data presentation, we have gone through different stages and ever richer. “We have moved – says Medamana – by connecting systems to virtual private line circuits, as systems packages programmable networks, private networks such as VPN up to go to the new paradigms. In particular, we are leaving the specialized hardware to use ever more flexible software, from aggregated systems monolithic systems, the service provisioning to the defined on-demand software systems in near real time. “
The goal is nimble and light systems, but also more reliable, flexible, fast, safe. And above all economic. “Cost is the big issue. And the third goal also in our opinion is the answer. ” What happens now? According to Eric Cervis, president of Verizon Partner Solutions, the evolution of the network will be a trip that will last more than a year. “Let’s start with on-demand bandwidth. Let’s move to pull out of the technologies that we are implementing the possible innovations and then proceed to the integration of the networks with data centers. The end point is the large-scale deployment of SDN. “
The changes will be many. Because they are also coming objects connected to the network, and the Internet of things. And there is the problem of security. However, as explained by James Walker, president of OpenCloud Connect, you need to proceed in stages. “From a cloud exchange that allows to pass things from one cloud and figure out ways to make it work for good.
ambitious but necessary targets. In the future, a company that has customers on its local network but analytical in Amazon’s cloud will be able to use a single model of integrated security with a single reporting, single view on everything. It is necessary to do so. It serves a great simplification. And at the end the third goal is just that: a great simplification. “
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