Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise

Martin Casado; Michael J. Freedman; Justin Pettit; Jianying Luo; Nick Mckeown; Scott Shenker

doi:10.1145/1282380.1282382

Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise

Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick Mckeown, Scott Shenker

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Abstract

This paper presents Ethane, a new network architecture for the enterprise. Ethane allows managers to define a single network-wide fine-grain policy, and then enforces it directly. Ethane couples extremely simple flow-based Ethernet switches with a centralized controller that manages the admittance and routing of flows. While radical, this design is backwards-compatible with existing hosts and switches. We have implemented Ethane in both hardware and software, supporting both wired and wireless hosts. Our operational Ethane network has supported over 300 hosts for the past four months in a large university network, and this deployment experience has significantly affected Ethane's design.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACM SIGCOMM 2007
Subtitle of host publication	Conference on Computer Communications
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1282380.1282382
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM SIGCOMM 2007: Conference on Computer Communications - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Aug 27 2007 → Aug 30 2007

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Name	ACM SIGCOMM 2007: Conference on Computer Communications

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Other	ACM SIGCOMM 2007: Conference on Computer Communications
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	8/27/07 → 8/30/07

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Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Software

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Architecture
Management
Network
Security

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