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Cisco SDN A Pragmatic Approach to Network Programmability Colin Kincaid, VP Network Operating Systems Technology Group

April 2013

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Device and

Network

Programmability

Abstraction of

Virtual + Physical

DevOps

Enterprise IT App

Integration with

Network

Open Industry

Standards

Building Foundation for an Application Intelligent Network Architecture

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Physical + Virtual

Network + Compute

Network

Network

+

Device

APIs

Controllers and

Agents

Virtual

Overlays

Applications

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Application

Infrastructure

Embedded

Network API

Device API

REST API

Agents

OpenFlow

Controller Infrastructure

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