Just in case you enjoyed truly magnificent Internet-free holidays and returned to overflowing Inbox and RSS feeds, here are the most popular posts from July, starting with the future of SDN:

• VMware buys Nicira: a Hypervisor Vendor Woke Up
• Is it safe to run Internet in a VRF?
• Why Do Internet Exchanges Need Layer-2?
• The Difference between Metro Ethernet and Stretched Data Center Subnets
• Could MPLS-over-IP replace VXLAN or NVGRE?
• BGP route replication in MPLS/VPN PE-routers
• Legacy Protocols in OpenFlow-Based Networks
• Does CPU-based forwarding performance matter for SDN?
• Long-Distance Workload Mobility in Perspective