15-10-2014, 09:43 AM
Abstracts: Enterprise network operators must frequently change the design of their networks to reflect new organizational needs. Migrating enterprise networks is challenging as there exists a huge semantic gap between high-level objectives that operators have for their networks and low-level configurations on hundreds of devices, and as there exists complex dependencies among network components and devices. Today the migration is manual and ad-hoc, which has been known to result in overly complex and kludge designs, and design faults and configuration errors causing outrages and enabling cyber attacks. The challenges in migrating enterprise networks pose a fundamental barrier to the adoption of new and innovative technologies such as cloud computing.