Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Emulating Large Scale Production Networks: Microsoft's Crystalnet

Microsoft's CrystalNet

I was working on a project a while ago, trying to emulate the packet flow determined by a Cisco IOS switch, on a virtual switch (OvS on OpenStack), migrating the configs to create a network infrastructure somewhat similar to what IOS is configured for. I was revisiting the project but instead chose to study for my CCNA R&S (because networking is amazing (giving it this month :D)).

After that microsoft released this CrystalNet paper, and I found it very interesting that they were also working on the same thing, but towards a much more commercial and production-ready product.

Just sharing it here, if anyone of you might want to read it and wanted to know your thoughts about it.

EDIT: updated link from pdf to site



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