Cloud Networking

You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.

Introduction to data center applications, traffic patterns, and physical network structure. Focuses on understanding networking needs within data centers and how increasing bandwidth demands influence network design.

Deep dive into data center network stack, covering routing and switching for physical and virtual machines, and congestion control. Examines routing concerns, virtual machine networking, and TCP congestion control in data centers.

Focus on management and sharing of network infrastructure in cloud data centers. Covers software-defined networking and network virtualization, including case studies of VL2 and NVP.

Examination of cloud networking ecosystem including inter-data center WAN connectivity, content distribution networks, end-user Internet connectivity, and application network interactions.

Final module focused on programming assignments submission and course wrap-up. Contains no new content but includes submission portals for three programming assignments.