创新——这是我在网络中喜欢的东西……

遗憾的是，我不认为在最近的记忆中有很多创新在网络方面能够真正帮助网络专业人员在他们的工作中更有效率。实际上，我想说的是，在过去的几年里，许多新功能和特性实际上使维护网络的工作变得更困难，而不是更容易。这怎么可能呢?我的意思是，在上世纪90年代中期网络发展的鼎盛时期，我们区分和实现的主要功能和功能有名称/缩写/缩写，如- EIGRP、EtherChannel、VTP、PVRST+等。我的意思是，这些都是家喻户晓的名字。,)也许不是在某些餐桌上，而是在互操作性期间在曼德勒湾会议中心的午餐柜台?肯定。事实上，我认为是2001年互联网的崩溃让一些大公司脱离了以技术为中心的发展，让他们开始专注于周边市场，以使他们的业务多样化，以防范未来的市场波动和调整。的确，一个多样化经营的企业比单一引导的企业更能经受住风暴。 Mostly though I mourn the loss of innovation - where are the features and capabilities that focus on network operations? While we developed QoS where is a mechanism to ensure consistent classification policy? While voice was being developed on the 'network platform' how do we ensure call admission control/ Actually it is time, it is time for a new wave of innovations that do focus on the network operator, ones that simplify operations, keep the network stable, rapidly heal when fault or failure is detected, focus on MTTR as much as MTBF, and enable automation and management by machine/software, not just by CLI. Reflecting on the past you can see that focused operational innovations made the network giants of today successful, is it absurd to think that continued innovations in this space would continue to create competitive advantage? Is it wrong for customers to want a simpler infrastructure, an open platform, extensible management APIs, and a stable operating system. Thoughtful design has been lacking, and as always "we don't know what we don't know." So it begs the question, "what should we be building?" What does the networking industry need to do that will make operational jobs easier? Fifteen years ago it was a fast converging routing protocol that supported IP, IPX, and Appletalk concurrently. It was a mechanism of distributing and auto-pruning VLANs across a L2 switched infrastructure. It was a method of bonding multiple Ethernet interfaces into one logical port that failed over faster and didn't block most of the capacity. If the technologies that caused the creation of a network hegemony were operational focused, and today we are integrating storage, Ethernet, IP, low-latency, high-throughput, HPC, cluster, video, voice, and market data traffic all over a common infrastructure - what do we need to build for you to make your jobs easier? What are the top things you really wish a network vendor did now? dg