Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise
ACM SIGCOMM computer communication review, 2007•dl.acm.org
This paper presents Ethane, a new network architecture for the enterprise. Ethane allows
managers to define a single network-wide fine-grain policy, and then enforces it directly.
Ethane couples extremely simple flow-based Ethernet switches with a centralized controller
that manages the admittance and routing of flows. While radical, this design is backwards-
compatible with existing hosts and switches. We have implemented Ethane in both
hardware and software, supporting both wired and wireless hosts. Our operational Ethane …
managers to define a single network-wide fine-grain policy, and then enforces it directly.
Ethane couples extremely simple flow-based Ethernet switches with a centralized controller
that manages the admittance and routing of flows. While radical, this design is backwards-
compatible with existing hosts and switches. We have implemented Ethane in both
hardware and software, supporting both wired and wireless hosts. Our operational Ethane …
This paper presents Ethane, a new network architecture for the enterprise. Ethane allows managers to define a single network-wide fine-grain policy, and then enforces it directly. Ethane couples extremely simple flow-based Ethernet switches with a centralized controller that manages the admittance and routing of flows. While radical, this design is backwards-compatible with existing hosts and switches.
We have implemented Ethane in both hardware and software, supporting both wired and wireless hosts. Our operational Ethane network has supported over 300 hosts for the past four months in a large university network, and this deployment experience has significantly affected Ethane's design.
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