Data center switch architecture in the age of merchant silicon

Proceedings - Symposium on the High Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-102

  Farrington, Nathan ^a   Rubow, Erik ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10-GIGABIT ETHERNET; COMMODITY PROCESSORS; DATA CENTERS; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; HIGH-SPEED; MULTI-STAGE; NETWORK FABRIC; PACKET SWITCHES; SWITCH ARCHITECTURES; TREE TOPOLOGY;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COSTS; ETHERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 77950954650     PISSN: 15504794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOTI.2009.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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