University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Cloud Networking

This course is part of Cloud Computing Specialization

P. Brighten Godfrey
Ankit Singla

Instructors: P. Brighten Godfrey

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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22 hours to complete
3 weeks at 7 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
90%
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There are 6 modules in this course

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.

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1 video5 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt1 plugin

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 in the course. We’ll then dive into the first of these topics, physical network structure, where we will look at how the increasing demand for bandwidth within data centers is influencing the network’s design.

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5 videos3 readings2 assignments

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 practice. We’ll also see how the network is moving deeper into the physical hosts in order to address the networking needs of virtual machines. With regards to congestion control, we’ll learn what problems TCP’s congestion control faces in data centers and how these are being addressed.

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8 videos1 reading1 assignment

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 difficult. We’ll learn how software-defined networking and network virtualization are addressing these problems.

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10 videos1 reading1 assignment

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 learn what novel techniques in each of these areas are pushing the cloud’s capabilities farther.

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11 videos1 reading1 assignment

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.

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P. Brighten Godfrey
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses42,402 learners
Ankit Singla
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 Courses41,491 learners

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