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SUMMARY:Make Switches Simple Again! - Dr Noa Zilberman
DTSTART:20190213T161500Z
DTEND:20190213T170000Z
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CONTACT:jo de bono
DESCRIPTION:The computing community had faced the end of Dennard's scaling
  and the slowdown of Moore's law over a decade ago\, prompting a move to m
 ulti-core and many-core CPU design. Similar challenges are faced by the ne
 tworking community today.\nIn this talk\, I discuss the limitations on net
 work device's scalability\, and assert that in order to continue and scale
  cloud computing\, network devices need to be significantly simplified.\nI
  open-up the architecture of the devices used in most of the world's netwo
 rk switch-systems\, providing in-depth insight into their design and prope
 rties\, and show how the architecture can scale up to data centre networks
 . The architecture offers a distributed solution\, attending to the limita
 tions of network-switch design\, while providing improved performance and 
 significant power savings compared with traditional solutions. With networ
 king requirements ever increasing\, I predict the elimination of packet sw
 itches\, replaced by cell switches in the network\, and smart network inte
 rface cards at the edges.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory
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