June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 32m
English
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List of Figures
| Number | Figure | Page |
| 1.1 | Typical data center network topology. | 6 |
| 1.2 | Roles of the control, management, and data planes. | 8 |
| 1.3 | A packet’s journey through switching hardware. | 10 |
| 1.4 | Control plane consternation in the switch. | 14 |
| 1.5 | Overhead of dynamic distributed route computation. | 15 |
| 1.6 | Centralized programming of forwarding tables. | 16 |
| 2.1 | Networking functionality migrating to hardware. | 22 |
| 2.2 | Example graph of a network for shortest-path calculation. | 23 |
| 2.3 | Server virtualization: creating a new VM instance. | 30 |
| 2.4 | Creating a new network instance in the old paradigm. | 31 |
| 2.5 | Multipath. | 33 |
| 3.1 | Early attempts at SDN: RADIUS. | 42 |
| 3.2 | Early attempts at SDN: orchestration. | 43 |
| 3.3 | Early attempts at SDN: plugins. | 45 |
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