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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:05:17 +0000

There are two terms used in IT that are often used in conjunction when learning about how technologies are built. These two terms are “Control Plane” and “Data Plane”. A quick and dirty definition of these two terms would be:

Control Plane - The decision making part of any system. Usually considered the brains of the system.
Data Plane - The part of a system that carries out an operation. This would be the routine tasks needed to make the system work.

Just as a sidebar, if you are looking for me to site my source on those definitions you’re out of luck. These are my basic definitions that I’ve made up for purposes of this post. If for some reason these definitions become common place, then I want some royalties. :)

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