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Towards building a scalable data center network architecture in the era of cloud computing

February 5, 2013

  • Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 
  • Time: 11:00 am — 11:50 am 
  • Place: Mechanical Engineering 218

Yihua He
Yahoo 

In the era of cloud computing, a hierarchal network design in a traditional data center can no longer keep up with the requirements in terms of increased bandwidth and different traffic characteristics. In this talk, I will first present the challenges that a traditional data center network architecture faces. I’ll then share the rationality in choosing and designing the next generation network architecture to address those challenges and bring 10G network to the host level. Finally, I’m going to present the demand of a SDN-based solution to deploy, monitor and troubleshoot this new network architecture which comes with vastly increased number of switches, viable routes and configuration changes.

 

Bio: Yihua He is a member of the technical staff at Yahoo, where he is involved in the architecture, design and automation of large scale next-generation network infrastructures. He has numerous technical publications in the area of Internet routing, topology, measurement and simulation. He is a reviewer for a number of computer networking journals and conferences. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was a graduate student in University of California, Riverside, where he received his PhD degree in computer science in 2007.