Coding Relic

Last week Greg Ferro wrote about the use of merchant silicon in networking products. I'd like to share some thoughts on the topic. ...

This weekend Greg Ferro published an article about jumbo frames . He points to recent measurements showing no real benefit with large fram...

In August this site published a series of posts about the Juniper QFabric . Since then Juniper has released hardware documentation for ...

Last week Martin Casado published some thoughts about using OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking for simple forwarding . That is, does ...

Modern commodity switch fabric chips are amazingly capable, but their functionality is not infinite. In particular their parsing engines are...

Last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco , Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked about recent growth in the service and how iOS5 had cause...

Modern CPUs are astonishingly complex, with huge numbers of caches, lookaside buffers, and other features to optimize performance. Hardware ...

Why use L2 networks in datacenters? Virtual machines need to move from one physical server to another, to balance load. To avoid disrupting...

Non Uniform Memory Access is common in modern x86 servers. RAM is connected to each CPU, which connect to each other. Any CPU can access an...

It is an interesting time to be involved in datacenter networking. There have been announcements recently of two competing proposals for run...

This is the third and final article in a series about VXLAN . I recommend reading the first and second articles before this one. I have no...

This is the second of several articles about VXLAN . I have not been briefed by any of the companies involved, nor received any NDA informat...

This is the first of several articles about VXLAN . I have not been briefed by any of the companies involved, nor received any NDA informati...