B4: Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN

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Year: 2013  ·  Venue: ACM SIGCOMM  ·  Authors: Sushant Jain, Alok Kumar, Subhasree Mandal, et al.

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Abstract

SDN leaves the lab: Google runs its inter-datacenter WAN at near-100% utilization with centralized traffic engineering. Proof that the ideas worked at planetary scale.

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