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It's On: Stacks versus Flows

#OpenStack #CloudStack #OpenFlow #SDN It's a showdown of model versus control – or is it?   There's a lot of noise about "wars" in the networking world these days. OpenStack versus Cl...
Published Nov 05, 2012
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Actually, that was the point... they aren't the same thing, they aren't designed for the same purpose and in fact they're more likely to be complementary than anything else.

 

 

I've read a couple of very high-level articles that *do* pit stacks and flows against each other, which drove me to try to point out they aren't comparable that way (as you point out) and what makes them different.

 

 

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