Flow processing and the rise of commodity network hardware

Authors:
Adam Greenhalgh;Felipe Huici;Mickael Hoerdt;Panagiotis Papadimitriou;Mark Handley;Laurent Mathy
Affiliations:
University College London, London, UNK, United Kingdom;NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;University College London, London, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Venue:
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The Internet has seen a proliferation of specialized middlebox devices that carry out crucial network functionality such as load balancing, packet inspection and intrusion detection. Recent advances in CPU power, memory, buses and network connectivity have turned commodity PC hardware into a powerful network platform. Furthermore, commodity switch technologies have recently emerged offering the possibility to control the switching of flows in a fine-grained manner. Exploiting these new technologies, we present a new class of network architectures which enables flow processing and forwarding at unprecedented flexibility and low cost.