Looking for audiovisual resources on Clos topologies

Fri May 3 17:32:51 UTC 2019

On Fri 2019-May-03 13:08:55 -0400, Sadiq Saif <lists at sadiqs.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I recently read a APNIC blog post about LINE's network redesign [0] 
>into a Clos topology. That lead to me RFC7938 [1] which has a fairly 
>minimal explanation of the topology design itself.
>
>I was wondering if there are any NANOG or other *NOG talks explaining 
>the Clos topology in a more audiovisual format. I figured I ask here 
>before I go looking on a search engine.
>
>Thanks in advance.

Some notes from Facebook and Google network architecture evolution/designs 
Google: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183.pdf
Facebook: 
https://code.fb.com/production-engineering/introducing-data-center-fabric-the-next-generation-facebook-data-center-network/

Some other related presentations:

Doug Hanks on multi-stage Clos architectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeTitZdcHB4

TeamNANOG: Building Scalable Data Centers: BGP is the Better IGP  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbqnOdD3cg

TeamNANOG: Building a smallish DC...for the rest of us  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yL6_tKfIfk

UKNOFconf: UKNOF32 - Google datacentre networking  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thc7Muu9SHc

>
>[0] - https://blog.apnic.net/2019/05/03/simplicity-is-key-to-network-redesign-for-line/
>
>[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7938
>-- 
>Sadiq Saif
>https://sadiqsaif.com

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