The third annual Big Communications Event in Austin this past month was rife with talk of orchestration, the digital telco and SDN. Terminology, especially at events, is always dizzying, mainly because terms ‘stick’ but their meanings are often very particular to the speaker and/or listener. I had one lengthy debate involving the meaning of SDN and whether it natively referred to the aspect of orchestrating connectivity between two or more points (which I prefer to call service orchestration) or if it was the traditional separation of control and data planes.
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