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title: "25-advanced-topics"
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# Datacenter networks
- 10's to 100's of thousands of hosts, often closely coupled, in close proximity
- e-business :(e.g., amazon)
- content servers: youtube etc
- search engines, data mining (e.g., google)
- challenges
- multiple applications, each server many clients
- reliability
- managing/balancing load
- procesing, networking, data bottlenecks
network elements
- server racks, 20-40 server blades: host
- Top of Rack (TOR) switch
- Tier 2 switches: connect to ~16 TORS below
- tier 1 switches connect to ~16 T-2s below
- border routers: connections outside
- ![](https://i.imgur.com/kFOrQ97.png)
- multipath communcation
- rich interconnecitions so many routes
- increased throughput
- increased reliability through redundancy
application-layer routing
- load balancer: app-layer routing
- recieves
# Software Defined networks