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How controller-less SDN is delivering on the broken promises of old-school SDN

Many networks remain highly manual with complex operations, which means business ideas for new software often hit a roadblock when getting connected to new services.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) promised to deliver a new world of network agility and control. Yet here we are nearly a decade later, and what progress has been made? The path to networking in 2018 is littered with broken SDN promises — most networks are still complex, costly and very proprietary.

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