Navigating network complexity
next-generation routing with SDN, service virtualization, and service chaining
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Tantsura, Jeff
Summary
"Network professionals have often been told that today's modern control planes would simplift their networks. The opposite has happened: Technologies like SDN and NFV, although immensely valuable, are exacerbating complexity instead of solving it. Navigating Network Complexity is the first comprehensive guide to managing this complexity in both deployment and day-to-day operations. Russ White and Jeff Tantsura introduce modern complexity theory from the standpoint of the working network engineer, helping you apply it to the practical problems you face every day. Avoiding complex mathematical models, they show how to characterize network complexity, so you can understand and control it"--Back cover.