articleAug 27, 2007Closed access

Ethane

MCMartín CasadoMJMichael J. FreedmanJPJustin PettitJLJianying LuoNMNick McKeown

Stanford University · Berkeley College · +1 more institution

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Abstract

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.

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  • Simple (philosophy)
  • Ethernet
  • Computer science
  • Routing (electronic design automation)
  • Computer network
  • Admittance
  • Controller (irrigation)
  • Architecture
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