sdn - sd network, lan/wan/wlan. meraki? aruba tunneled-node? versa? You mean it all still works the same.. does the same stuff.. in many cases, simpler, but I can do without the narcissism and ego of engineers making excuses for inconsistencies, delays, and misconfigurations?

sign me up.

that is what the c levels are thinking. they are not wrong.

as a consultant, 80% of my time is spent looking at very stupid mistakes. legacy configurations, huge mistakes. incorrectly configured interfaces, no stp priorities defined, no vlan allowed pruning, wrong ospf timers or manual costing.. not to mention qos stupidity, prefix-list mistakes, acl's with allow all's. absolutely no ability to consistently audit large network fields. legacy brownfield networks are consistently shit.

sdn is the future, you can refuse to embrace it like you embrace a local binary of Microsoft word.. meanwhile the rest of the world has moved to o365 and teams.

call it my Wednesday rant.