Can software routers scale?

  • Authors:

  • Katerina Argyraki;Salman Baset;Byung-Gon Chun;Kevin Fall;Gianluca Iannaccone;Allan Knies;Eddie Kohler;Maziar Manesh;Sergiu Nedevschi;Sylvia Ratnasamy

  • Affiliations:

  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;Columbia University, NYC, NY, USA;ICSI, Berkeley, CA, USA;Intel, Berkeley, CA, USA;Intel, Berkeley, CA, USA;Intel, Berkeley, CA, USA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA;Intel, Berkeley, CA, USA;U.C.Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Intel, Berkeley, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
  • Year:
  • 2008

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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.