Rewind to a decade ago, and it was common to hear the complaint that networks know nothing about the application layer, and what happens at the application layer is more important than what happens at the network layer. While that framing is worth challenging, there is an essential truth, network infrastructure is a means to an end, it is not the end in itself.
The Overlay Decade
The Overlay Decade
The Overlay Decade
Rewind to a decade ago, and it was common to hear the complaint that networks know nothing about the application layer, and what happens at the application layer is more important than what happens at the network layer. While that framing is worth challenging, there is an essential truth, network infrastructure is a means to an end, it is not the end in itself.