Heavy Networking 465: Looking Backward and Forward with Harry Quackenboss

Harry Quackenboss is long time veteran of infrastructure technology. In networking he was a VP of Sales of Crescendo for FDDI networking (to the desktop) which was acquired by Cisco. He later founded Woven Systems as a high speed Ethernet company of the time and more lately CEO of cPlane, a SDN company now relaunched as CPLANE NETWORKS, .  Today, Harry is investor and advisor to a number of companies in the infrastructure space.
Harry talks with Greg about the state of networking based on his experiences.
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Topics Covered

* Ethernet, FDDI and did we make the right choice and why ?
* Bundling and unbundling of products
* The invisible cost of product evangelisation.
* Should customers be smarter about demanding free sales effort ?
* Can the WAN / LAN / Campus converge into a single unit of operation ?
* Why SDWAN is taking off ? Permission-less connectivity, Internet is good enough.
* Open Source isn’t free and the cost of software isn’t directly less than hardware.
* The emergence of co-processors for off-load and what that might mean for NFV
* Service Function Chaining or Microsegmentationsomewhat

 
You can find Harry on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryquackenboss/