A Billion Served

The cloud is the new “killer” service to bring service providers and enterprises into the age of network services capable of infinite scale. As an example, a mere 5,000 servers with many cloud services could feasibly serve one billion users or end devices. The idea of services at this scale is now possible with multi-core processing, virtualization and high speed Ethernet, but even today the mix of implementing these technologies requires careful considerations in network infrastructure design. This presentation covers the challenges of the network infrastructure enabling cloud services at infinite scale.