RouteBricks: Enabling General-Purpose Network Infrastructure

The inflexibility of the Internet's infrastructure is a growing concern within the computer science community. Simply put - the Internet's original designers never anticipated its astounding success. Consequently, traditional network design built networks using specialized equipment (routers) with -hard coded‖ support for a pre-defined set of capabilities. This approach can no longer keep pace with the rapidly-evolving demands of new applications. Router Bricks proposes a simple but radical solution - that networks be built from general-purpose computers rather than specialized equipment. The project is building high-speed routers from clusters of servers running open-source software. Ordinary programmers can thus cheaply and rapidly (re)program networks using the platform they are most familiar with-the general-purpose computer

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