Re: Where you think the market/network will be heading

[Matt Harris <matt () netfire net>]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:33 AM lobna gouda <lobna_gouda () hotmail com> wrote:

> Hello Networks,
>
> Might sound unprofessional, but seriously Wanted to get your views about
> upcoming technlogies or market.  Things like  virtualization, cloud
> services , automation and SDN models and its use cases have actually done
> some shift, no much  gap between ISP and DC tech. For example things like
> SDWAN, EVPN, SR...etc will end classical MPLS this is if you do not want to
> perform your own scripted PCEP and will be used in ISP, enterprise and DC
>
> If you would like to provide a good career advise for someone willing  to
> change, is working in designing  datacenter (learning storage,
> Virtulaztion, cloud services, LB...etc) or working in a mid-size company
> that is looking  for its own solutions type of this and you will utilize
> your own skills differently and honestly you do not know what you would
> expect or learn
>
> What would you choose and have anyone went through this route before? what
> is your experience/advise?

I think the network is moving more towards virtualized and whitebox
platforms.  Slowly but surely.  If you look at how Juniper's virtual
platforms - the vSRX and vMX (and I'd imagine vQFX though I haven't played
with this myself) work, and at how they built the MX204 router hardware and
software stack, I think that speaks to where things will be going over the
next decade.  Cisco's on board to at least some degree as well with the
Nexus 1000v NX-OS platform.  All of this coupled with the rise of the cloud
- and not just AWS and Azure, but private in-house clouds and smaller
public cloud providers running OpenStack or other products which integrate
nearly with these virtualized platforms.
Beyond the software and virtualized side, there's the hardware side and
going beyond how Juniper built the MX204, you have a growing trend among
large organizations to run white box hardware solutions which I suspect
will eventually trickle down as well.  There'll be plenty of fun toys to
play with well into the future!  ;)