Earlier this month I attended the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) event in NYC, the bi-annual opportunity to hear from customers about how networking is still not meeting their needs and what vendors need to be doing to address the situation. While the networking kingpins like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise own the network landscape, it is clear that the latest innovations are coming from two places: smaller startups and open networking. Both of these have an opportunity to challenge the status quo; the startups in taking business because they can move faster than the incumbents, and open networking because it challenges the proprietary lock-in that has been the hallmark of the traditional networking business.

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