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Cisco’s Embrace of OpenStack Pays Network Dividends [VIDEO]

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 17, 2016

When Lew Tucker, vice-president and CTO of cloud computing at Cisco first got Cisco involved with OpenStack, networking wasn’t even a separate project, it was just part of the Nova compute project. OpenStack has since evolved with the Neutron networking project and more recently, a large focus on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) with some of the world’s largest carriers supporting the effort.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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