A guided tour of data-center networking

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 44-51

  Abts, Dennis ^a   Felderman, Bob ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; FINANCIAL ENTERPRISE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL COMPUTERS; LOW-LATENCY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; WAREHOUSES;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863769402     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2184319.2184335     Document Type: Article

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