Physics (Installment 2 of a series)

In the previous installment of this series on NFV, SDN and related issues, I
talked about the relationship between communications and computation (the
merging of which I dubbed computications); now we are ready to take these ideas
one step further.

A computational resource (such as
a server or a laptop computer), as well as a communications resource (such as a router or a
switch), may be a