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  1. As history repeats itself maybe we can look forward to someone reinventing frame relay and a virtual gateway to connect to it so that our SDNs can connect circa 1995. Past is future!

    https://books.google.com/books?id=2xAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=at%26T+sdn+service&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6zw1VZ-lC6ywsASwsoEQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwADgK
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    1. It's called "layer-2 extension" and "InterCloud" these days ;))
  2. Yep I remember the AT&T, Lotus and Novell Server cloud solution offered back in 1994 etc. More like a rough IaaS or hosting soluting back then. With AT&T Frame-Relay network to your main and branch offices you can connect to AT&T hosted Novell servers that ran Lotus applications etc. Multi-tenant via DLCI and bare metal server per client. It didn't take off due to security and the protocols and pipes of that time were too fat. But again, nothing new.
  3. I still think people invested in selling the SDN and Network Virtualisation 'Revolution' are forgetting what the 'V' in VLAN stands for.... :p Networking has been virtual for decades, before servers were too. Now is just about scale out and automate up...
  4. There's a Computer World article from 29th of April 1985 showing AT&T's "proposed Software Defined Network rates"
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