IP networks today require massive effort to configure and manage. Ethernet is vastly simpler to manage, but does not scale beyond small local area networks. This paper describes ...
The largest enterprise networks already contain hundreds of thousands of hosts. Enterprise networks are composed of Ethernet subnets interconnected by IP routers. These routers re...
Brent Stephens, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, T. S. E...
A conventional enterprise or campus network comprises Ethernet-based IP subnets interconnected by routers. Although each subnet runs with minimal (or zero) configuration by virtue...
As the number of hosts attached to a network increases beyond what can be connected by a single local area network (LAN), forwarding packets between hosts on different LANs become...
Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Da...
In enterprise and data center networks, the scalability of the data plane becomes increasingly challenging as forwarding tables and link speeds grow. Simply building switches with...