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Cloud Networking
Understanding Cloud-based Data Center Networks
1st Edition - June 9, 2014
Author: Gary Lee
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780128007280
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eBook ISBN:9780128008164
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Cloud Networking: Understanding Cloud-Based Data Center Networks explains the evolution of established networking technologies into distributed, cloud-based networks. Starting…Read more
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Cloud Networking: Understanding Cloud-Based Data Center Networks explains the evolution of established networking technologies into distributed, cloud-based networks. Starting with an overview of cloud technologies, the book explains how cloud data center networks leverage distributed systems for network virtualization, storage networking, and software-defined networking. The author offers insider perspective to key components that make a cloud network possible such as switch fabric technology and data center networking standards. The final chapters look ahead to developments in architectures, fabric technology, interconnections, and more. By the end of the book, readers will understand core networking technologies and how they’re used in a cloud data center.
Understand existing and emerging networking technologies that combine to form cloud data center networks
Explains the evolution of data centers from enterprise to private and public cloud networks
Reviews network virtualization standards for multi-tenant data center environments
Includes cutting-edge detail on the latest switch fabric technologies from the networking team in Intel
Industry professionals looking to understand how networking technologies facilitate cloud systems
About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1: Welcome to Cloud Networking
Abstract
Introduction
Networking basics
What is a cloud data center?
What is cloud networking?
Characteristics of cloud networking
Summary of this book
Chapter 2: Data Center Evolution—Mainframes to the Cloud
Abstract
The data center evolution
Computer networks
Ethernet
Enterprise versus cloud data centers
Movement to the cloud
Review
Chapter 3: Switch Fabric Technology
Abstract
Switch fabric architecture overview
Switch fabric topologies
Congestion management
Flow control
Traffic management
Switch chip architecture examples
Review
Chapter 4: Cloud Data Center Networking Topologies
Abstract
Traditional multitiered enterprise networks
Data center network switch types
Flat data center networks
Rack scale architectures
Network function virtualization
Review
Chapter 5: Data Center Networking Standards
Abstract
Ethernet data rate standards
Virtual local area networks
Data center bridging
Improving network bandwidth
Remote direct memory access
Review
Chapter 6: Server Virtualization and Networking
Abstract
VM overview
Virtual switching
PCI express
Edge virtual bridging
VM migration
Review
Chapter 7: Network Virtualization
Abstract
Multi-tenant environments
Traditional network tunneling protocols
VXLAN
NVGRE
Tunnel locations
Load Balancing
Review
Chapter 8: Storage Networks
Abstract
Storage background
Advanced storage technologies
Storage communication protocols
Network convergence
Software-defined storage
Storage in cloud data centers
Review
Chapter 9: Software-Defined Networking
Abstract
Data center software background
OpenStack
OpenFlow
Network function virtualization
SDN deployment
Review
Chapter 10: High-Performance Computing Networks
Abstract
HPC system architectures
Multisocket CPU boards
HPC networking standards
HPC network performance factors
HPC networking software
Review
Chapter 11: Future Trends
Abstract
Rack scale architectures
Memory technology
Switch fabric technology
Cabling technology
Software-defined infrastructure
Review
Chapter 12: Conclusions
Abstract
Technology evolution
Industry standards
Networking
Storage and HPC
Data center virtualization
Software-defined infrastructure
Concluding remarks
Index
No. of pages: 238
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: June 9, 2014
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
Paperback ISBN: 9780128007280
eBook ISBN: 9780128008164
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Gary Lee
Gary Lee has been working in the semiconductor industry since 1981. He began his career as a transistor-level chip designer specializing in the development of high-performance Gallium Arsenide chips for the communication and computing markets. Starting in 1996 while working for Vitesse Semiconductor, he led the development of the world’s first switch fabric chip set that employed synchronous high-speed serial interconnections between devices, which were used in a variety of communication system designs and spawned several new high performance switch fabric product families. As a switch fabric architect, he also became involved with switch chip designs utilizing the PCI Express interface standard while working at Vitesse and at Xyratex, a leading storage system OEM. In 2007, he joined a startup company called Fulcrum Microsystems who was pioneering low latency 10GbE switch silicon for the data center market. Fulcrum was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2011 and he is currently part of Intel’s Networking Division. For the past 7 years he has been involved in technical marketing for data center networking solutions and has written over 40 white papers and application notes related to this market segment. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and holds 7 patents in several areas including transistor level semiconductor design and switch fabric architecture. His hobbies include travel, playing guitar, designing advanced guitar tube amps and effects, and racket sports. He lives with his wife in California and has three children.