New networking approaches such as SDN and NFV will require a balance between hardware and software.
Like far too many things in this world, enterprise networking seems to bounce between two extremes. One year, hardware acceleration is all the rage. The next, a software-only approach seeks to transform the way networks are built and deployed altogether. In reality, new networking approaches such as software-defined networking (SDN) andnetworking functions virtualization (NFV) will require a balance between hardware and software.
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