SDN NFV World Congress

Should developers wait for standardised SDN APIs, or move fast and create their own?

By Martyn Warwick

Jun 20, 2014

Jon Vestal, VP Product Architecture, Pacnet

APIs provide a way to access and control network functions. They enable partners to programmatically control a system, allowing an application to communicate with a network's back-end system. But are standard APIs best, or should vendors move fast and create their own? Can the industry afford to wait for the standardisation process?

Filmed at: Network Virtualization & SDN World Congress, London, 27 May 2014

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