 Welcome back everyone. We're here live at the open networking summit, ONS 2014, the hashtag. This is the Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events, expect a signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Island. I'm Joe, my co-host. Stu Miniman, chief analyst at Wikibon.org. Dave Vellante is in the house checking out some things, doing some research, talking to the customers, talking to the vendors. This is an interesting show. We're going to strap up here day one segment, wall-to-wall coverage. We've had all the big players in networking on the Cube, all the most important guests, entrepreneurs, big CEOs, companies. Stu, big change here, future networking. You hear cloud firsts, not mobile firsts, cloud firsts of the show. Really a changing of the guard and the networking layer. You're seeing about the lunar destination being sat, integrating and making it programmable, the programmable interfaces. This is devos, means software-defined data center, means networking, under change, massive transformation. It's a future of networking. It's at the infancy of a revolution. What's your take? Yeah, John, I think change is the word that I come out from this show. Obviously, open source is a huge catalyst for what's going on here. But when I think back to my career and how I've watched networking, usually I measure it in decades. I mean, you go through the standards work, you get the piece done, slowly adoption happens, and you look at how long it actually took from the idea to come up through a lot of people using it, and it takes 10 years or more for it to happen. We really see some of these cycles compressing. This is the third year of this show. It has changed dramatically. Last year, we talked a lot about open flow. This year, it's more open daylight and cloud and open stack. NFV is making an appearance here. By next year, maturity will be even more. We think that within two or three years, we're going to see significant changes in some of the landscape and significant shifts in where dollars are going. I think one of the things I'm seeing is this programmatic interface. It's not just about APIs as a punchline. Composition of applications and services. The service cataloging business is here. Provisioning dynamically, agile in the cloud. Really, the networking is getting their act together to innovate for dynamic provisioning, push button provisioning. With the users now, our developers, this is DevOps. DevOps is directly in a collision course with networking. You're seeing virtualization open up a range of creativity. We had Martin Casada on B.M. Ware, former CEO, founder of NSEERF, talking about how awesome this opportunity is. We had Dave, the CTO, Chief Editor of Francisco, talking about unparalleled change at the edge of the network identity system, security, Internet of Things is certainly going to change the dynamics. We even have got some big data in here. It's the confluence of all the trends we're covering here on theCUBE and all the shows we've gone through. More of the same. I want business value. I want dynamic networks. The networks have to be more responsive, faster, horizontal, vertical. IT is a service. Pick your approach. IT is the center of the value proposition. This is where it's going. Stu, what's your take on that? Two, where's open flow? Where's all those futures? One of the things we heard Cisco talk on here and say, most of these projects aren't really done. One of the questions I have coming out of this is, is an open source project ever done? It's kind of gradual maturity. The thing that worries me about that is customers buy their network based on fear. It is great if you can save the company money, but if the network goes down, you're out of a job. You definitely need to make sure that it's rock solid. The counter to that is the big companies that build their business around the network, companies like NTT, companies like AT&T, companies like Google have figured this out, are working with these new technologies, and that definitely is going to move down markets. You said cloud first, absolutely, is leading this trend. People need to either get on board with the cloud guys or find some way to be able to come and be competitive with it. Just some notable points. I'd like to share the post on my analysis. The show is obviously under the hood is key. The demand is very consistent with the cloud market and networking that under the hood ability for folks to look under the hood and match composite services and programmatically take a piece of this, put it with that vendor, open source is the key part of that. Check the box there. Again, that's consistent. The ops revolution, I think that was interesting note in the system that the real revolution is around operations. This is a once in a decade kind of thing, once in a century maybe you might want to say. The other thing is the devices. I don't know if things, I don't know if everything, the Cisco message, but internet of things brings the device centric and changes the definition of the edge of the network or identity of the person is not tied to a device that opens up the security conversation, a lot of other things, and all this stuff wrapped around that. Finally, what I found really interesting was Cisco. Really talking about a developer community outside of Cisco. That's something that they haven't launched yet. They're in beta. They're talking to some folks. I'll be interesting to see that because I think that's a new concept we heard from IBM last week at IBM Pulse. They're trying to reach the born on the web developers with their cloud blue mix. Cisco actually seeing that they have to move up the stack. That's big. I think that those are big highlights. On the vendor side though, the absence of Juniper is clear. HP is mute. Those are surprises to me actually. John, just to build off what you were talking about from the developers. To be honest, when I became an analyst four years ago, core networking was really boring. It was just dominated by a single vendor. There wasn't a lot going on. We heard from actually a couple of guys that work at Red Hat today. They had almost thought about leaving networking because four years ago it was getting kind of dull in the marketplace. Today, there's exciting places. If you want to be a coder, there's lots of places you can get involved. The development community, there's exciting things going on. There's lots of new job opportunities to really add value to your business and to move networking forward. Lots of good career opportunities, which is good to see. Of course, automation is going to put pressure on some of those jobs. If you can't take advantage of those changes, you might be out of a job in a couple of years. In collaboration and orchestration, obviously key messages that we've hearing repeating over and over again, those are table stakes. Obviously, scale on the hyper scale side was another thing that was mentioned. Hyper scale is coming into the enterprise. It's a key message we're hearing. We heard that from Brocade's chief scientist. Overall, I'm excited to see movement, real positive progress, moving from vapor hype to reality. Again, it's a step in front of a step first down in 10, move the chains, whatever analogy you want to use. The industry is moving. I think it is a call to action for the industry to say, hey, we better get our act together than power the cloud. Cloud scaling. The cloud is scaling, apps are scaling, diversity of applications. So great show. I think the data center networking platform concept is here. I think software defined data center, it will be a reality. The question is, which approach will it take? What version of open source, which mix of open programmable APIs for composition, as Martin was talking about as well as Cisco. So to me, I think that's my take. Great to see the action. Also great to have a new co-host on here, Scott Raynovich working with us on the networking side. Great to see Scott join the team relative to Silicon Angel and the Cube, Mookie Bond just to kind of join the team to help bring a different critical analysis and analyst perspective. So fantastic show so far. Yeah, John, I mean, you know, it's the community which has gotten so much feedback. A lot of the people online we think, you know, as always the audience that's watching the developer community, the networking community is a real tight one. And, you know, great to see, you know, some of these tech athletes that we've brought on over the years to help really, you know, show the history as it's happening throughout all of these shows. It's been exciting through, you know, VMworld and Amazon and OpenStack and, you know, some of the big shows we've got coming up this year. And the Cube is here on the ground covering, we've heard from the CEO Kelly Wanzer say, it's a great time to be a startup in networking. We know Peter Levine from Andresa Horowitz, he funded Q-MOS Networks. The VCs are out there right now talking to folks. Great movement, great innovation. There's some oxygen in the room feeding the flames of innovation here inside Open Network Center. This is the Cube. Great shout-out to the team. Great thanks for the crew here, Stu. Good job. Dave's here. He's got great messages here. Great show. Any final words? Yeah, I mean, you know, just looking at, you know, where this is going forward, John. I think you said this is, you know, part of our cloud coverage, you know, networking is moving outside of the silo. It's really, you know, bleeding into more of the systems and the clouds. So excited to see where a lot of these people show up at, you know, OpenStack. And, you know, this is probably the best SDN show. So excited we're here. We talked about, you know, how some of the other, you know, shows in networking have been on the decline. But, you know, big thank you for my standpoint to the, you know, the ONS folks for bringing us in. Cisco for being a sponsor. And John, always a pleasure to do the show with you. Yeah, Open Networking Summit. Really getting its legs here. Sea legs. Really relevant show. This is going to be a big show going forward. I want to thank Cisco for being an underwriting sponsor to bring the Cube here. The Cube and its independent analysis commentary. Opening up the microphone for the tech athletes to share their information. Of course, for us to break down the analysis. Best event coverage has been coined on the web. Stu, thanks to you guys at Wikibon and SiliconANGLE. If you want to catch these videos, go to youtube.com slash SiliconANGLE. And go to our new Cube site at siliconangle.tv. Got a new player there. We're breaking down the videos for you. And, of course, follow us on Twitter. At SiliconANGLE. At Wikibon. I'm Matt Furrier. And he's at Stu. This is the Cube wrapping up from ONS 2014. Open Networking Summit 2014. This is a wrap. We'll see it next show. We've got Amazon coming up. We've got OpenStack on the horizon. IBM Impact. A variety of more and more shows. A lot of stuff coming up for the year. Thanks for watching the Cube. And that's it. Live here in Silicon Valley for Open Networking Summit 2014. I'm John Furrier. I'm Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante. This is Scott Rainovich. Thanks for watching.