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Mastering Python Networking
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Mastering Python Networking

by Eric Chou
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Physical switch selection

Physical switch selection is always an interesting question to ask when building your network. The term 'switch' in this context should be broadly interpreted as both L2 and L3 devices. In the SDN world, where we separate the control and data plane, any network function, such as routing, switching, firewall, monitoring, or firewall function, are software function while we reduce the physical packet transport into flows. The line between software-based versus hardware switch is almost non-existent when it comes to management and control plane constructs. However, we still need to be concerned with hardware capacity when it comes to building our network infrastructure.

If you draw a comparison between network engineering ...

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ISBN: 9781784397005