A joint effort among open software-defined networking (SDN) organizations has resulted in a new leaf-spine datacenter fabric leveraging commodity white-box hardware and open source technologies. The ...

Storage networks are constantly evolving. From traditional Fibre Channel to IP-based storage networks, each technology has its place in the data center. IP-based storage solutions have two main ...

About a decade ago almost all data centers were built on a traditional three- (or sometimes more) tier architectures that used the spanning tree protocol (STP). That prevented routing loops but also ...

Layers are good things in many instances. Layers of thin strips of wood combine to form plywood, for example, which exhibits strength that would otherwise be unrealized. In engineering, a top-down ...

A group led by On.Lab's ONOS project has released an open source leaf-spine fabric architecture, hoping to further the cause of open networking. It's also an attempt to show that OpenFlow can be done ...