Data Center Networking

Data Center Networking
Major Theme:
What are new networking issues posed by large-scale data centers?
Network Architecture?
Topology design?
Addressing?
Routing?
Forwarding?
Data Center Interconnection Structure
Nodes in the system: racks of servers
How are the nodes (racks) inter-connected?
Typically a hierarchical inter-connection structure
Today's typical data center structure
Cisco recommended data center structure:
starting from the bottom level
rack switches
1-2 layers of (layer-2) aggregation switches
access routers
core routers
Is such an architecture good enough?
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