Cloud Networking

Course
en
English
30 h
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Source
  • From www.coursera.org
Conditions
  • Self-paced
  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
More info
  • 5 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

Course details

Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Orientation
    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.
  • Week 1 - Week 1
    We will start by looking at the applications running in data centers and the traffic patterns resulting from them. This will help us differentiate the networking needs within data centers from computer networking in general and set the stage for other material...
  • Week 2 - Week 2
    This week, we will dive further into the data center network stack, looking at routing and switching for physical and virtual machines and congestion control. We’ll examine what concerns routing needs to address in these environments and how it’s done in pract...
  • Week 3 - Week 3
    This week focuses on management and sharing of network infrastructure in cloud data centers. Traditional networking technologies require complex, error-prone network configuration, and make sharing of the network across multiple tenants in a secure manner diff...
  • Week 4 - Week 4
    Zooming out from within data centers, this week will examine other pieces of the cloud networking ecosystem: inter-data center WAN connectivity, content distribution networks, end-user Internet connectivity, and application interactions with the network. We’ll...
  • Week 5 - Week 5 - Programming Assignment Submission
    There is no new content in this module. You can find all the information about the programming assignments here, as well as submit your programming assignments here.

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

P. Brighten Godfrey
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science

Ankit Singla
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

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