Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise

Martìn Casado; Michael J. Freedman; Justin Pettit; Jianying Luo; Nick McKeown; Scott Shenker

doi:10.1145/1282427.1282382

Ethane: Taking control of the enterprise

Martìn Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker

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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 in Stanford University's network, and this deployment experience has significantly affected Ethane's design.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Computer Communication Review
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1282427.1282382
State	Published - Oct 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Software
Computer Networks and Communications

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Architecture
Management
Network
Security

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