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A few months back I reconnected with my old Nicira colleague Amar Padmanabhan, who these days is one of the leads on the Magma project. I’ll be getting more involved in that effort over the coming months, so this week’s newsletter serves as an introduction to the project.

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In our most recent post we made note of the common pattern of centralized policy input coupled with distributed implementation of policies, and this we…

Apr 26

Security is a topic that we introduced to Computer Networks: A Systems Approach back in the second edition, i.e., in the late 1990s. We took a network-…

Apr 12

This week marks the 13th anniversary of Nick McKeown’s influential paper proposing OpenFlow as an interface to open the network to more innovation. The…

Mar 29

How flexibility drives innovation

Mar 15

Welcome to the first issue of the Systems Approach newsletter. We’ll be sharing our thoughts on networking and related technologies as we work on our S…

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Mar 1

Explaining the Internet: its technology, its architecture, and its evolution

Feb 15

Congestion control has been on my mind a lot over the last year, given our dependence on a smooth-running Internet to work from home, connect with fri…

Feb 15

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