Title :
WAN virtualization: Looking beyond point-to-point circuits
Author :
Monga, Inder ; Pouyoul, Eric ; Chin Guok
Author_Institution :
Sci. Networking Div., Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Labs., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Meshes of point-to-point circuits have been the lingua franca for isolating WAN traffic between distributed sites. This talk describes a flexible switching-service abstraction that enables distributed science collaborations as well as enterprise cloud computing.
Keywords :
telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; virtualisation; wide area networks; WAN traffic isolation; WAN virtualization; distributed science collaborations; enterprise cloud computing; flexible switching-service abstraction; point-to-point circuits; Cloud computing; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Switches; Virtualization; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
