1. Software Innovations for
Cloud-Scale Networking:
Keeping Pace with
Today’s Flood of Data
It’s all too much
for a centralized
network to
handle
37%
In three years,
37% of this
fast-moving data
will be processed
at the edge1
The Focus is
on the Edge
Mobility
Rich media
Collaboration
10X
growth in
mobile
data from
2014 to
2019
2
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1
Applications
2
SDN
Controller
3
Segment
Routing
Infrastructure
(Reuse Existing
Assets)
Applications communicate their
requirements such as band-
width, latency, and SLAs.
The controller collects
data from the network,
such as topology, link
states, and link utilization.
Applications are mapped
to a path defined by a list
of segments.
Sources: 1 Cisco Global Cloud Index Forecast, 2014–2019 2 Cisco Mobile VNI Study, 2014
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