Scale-Out networking in the data center

IEEE Micro

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 29-41

  Vahdat, Amin ^a   Al Fares, Mohammad ^a   Farrington, Nathan ^a   Mysore, Radhika Niranjan ^a   Porter, George ^a   Radhakrishnan, Sivasankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

datacenter network architecture; datacenter routing; L2 fabric; merchant silicon; network fault tolerance; scale out networking

Indexed keywords

DATACENTER; DATACENTER NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; L2 FABRIC; MERCHANT SILICON; NETWORK FAULTS; SCALE OUTS;

FABRICS; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77956077955     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2010.72     Document Type: Article

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