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Can Software Routers Scale?

Aikaterini Argyraki
2008
Conference Papers

Abstract

Software routers can lead us from a network of special-purpose hardware routers to one of general-purpose extensible infrastructure--if, that is, they can scale to high speeds. We identify the challenges in achieving this scalability and propose a solution: a cluster-based router architecture that uses an interconnect of commodity server platforms to build software routers that are both incrementally scalable and fully programmable.

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Aikaterini Argyraki
2008
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/6b830073-26e9-4816-9307-6942571ca676

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Router (computing)

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the traffic directing functions between networks and on the global Internet. Data sent through a network, such as a web page or email, is in the form of data packets. A packet is typically forwarded from one router to another router through the networks that constitute an internetwork (e.g. the Internet) until it reaches its destination node. A router is connected to two or more data lines from different IP networks.

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