Dahu: Commodity switches for direct connect data center networks

ANCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 59-70

  Radhakrishnan, Sivasankar ^a   Tewari, Malveeka ^a   Kapoor, Rishi ^a   Porter, George ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center network; Direct connect network

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CENTRALIZED APPROACHES; COMMODITY ETHERNET; COMMODITY SWITCHES; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; DIRECT CONNECT; HIGH-BANDWIDTH NETWORKS; MASSIVE QUANTITIES; SHORTEST PATH ROUTING;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84893464204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ANCS.2013.6665176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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