One of the more popular water cooler discussions for network engineers revolves around the topic of open networking. While open networking can have a lot of different meanings, for the purposes of this article it generally involves pairing an open source networking operating system with generic, commodity hardware, or running the NOS inside a virtual machine.
This disaggregation sounds exciting, yet it can be hard to know how to begin dabbling in this open networking universe. In this blog, I’ll offer some ideas to help point you in the right direction.
