Computer Networking › Section F · The link layer and LANs › Topic F.6
Data center networking
Search, streaming and cloud services run on data centres: buildings holding tens of thousands of servers or more. Their internal network must give every server fast, reliable paths to every other, and ordinary campus designs cannot.
In this topic
- A building full of computers
- Racks, tiers and load balancers
- Leaf-spine and Clos networks
- Fat-tree sizing
- Worked example: oversubscription
- Failing gracefully
- Equal-cost multipath
- Worked example: when hashing collides
- Trends
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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