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Software Defined Networks
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Software Defined Networks

by Paul Goransson, Chuck Black
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 32m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 7

SDN in the Data Center

Abstract

Chapter 7 delves more deeply into data center networking technology, both as it exists today and as it will adapt in the future through the benefit of SDN. More than most mainstream deployments, the modern data center has stretched traditional networking to the breaking point. In this chapter we define and describe the modern data center and examine the needs, technologies and use cases specific to this challenging environment. Data center needs include dealing with MAC address table overflow and VLAN exhaustion, multi-tenancy, traffic engineering and path efficiency, among others. We provide details of how new tunneling and path technologies are applied in the data center. We discusses specific use cases ...

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ISBN: 9780124166752