Past: Scalable ethernet for data centers

CoNEXT 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-60

  Stephens, Brent ^a   Cox, Alan ^a   Felter, Wes ^b   Dixon, Colin ^b   Carter, John ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM AUSTIN RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center; OpenFlow; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; ETHERNET NETWORKS; ETHERNET SWITCHES; HARDWARE SUPPORTS; HYPER-X; IP NETWORKS; MOBILITY SUPPORTS; OPENFLOW; SELF CONFIGURATION; SPANNING TREE;

EXPERIMENTS; FIRMWARE; HARDWARE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ETHERNET;

EID: 84871968802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2413176.2413183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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