Virtualization of Datacenters: Network Challenges and Control Plane Solutions

Today's content-rich Internet, e-commerce, and social media applications require instantaneous and reliable availability to the massive amounts of data they serve on a daily basis. To accommodate this demand, there is an ongoing migration to cloud computing in the business, finance, and consumer world. This paper outlines the demand creators and current solutions for datacenter network virtualization. It discusses the key technical challenges that need to be address to transform the datacenter networks for maximum utilization, and how control plane scaling is a key component in the complete virtualization of datacenter networks.

To access this white paper, fill out the form below.