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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Cloud Networking

In the cloud networking course, we will see what the network needs to do to enable cloud computing. We will explore current practice by talking to leading industry experts, as well as looking into interesting new research that might shape the cloud network’s future. This course will allow us to explore in-depth the challenges for cloud networking—how do we build a network infrastructure that provides the agility to deploy virtual networks on a shared infrastructure, that enables both efficient transfer of big data and low latency communication, and that enables applications to be federated across countries and continents? Examining how these objectives are met will set the stage for the rest of the course. This course places an emphasis on both operations and design rationale—i.e., how things work and why they were designed this way. We're excited to start the course with you and take a look inside what has become the critical communications infrastructure for many applications today.

Status: Network Switches
Status: Wide Area Networks
Course23 hours

Featured reviews

KI

5.0Reviewed Jul 10, 2017

It was useful but there could be a bit more and in-depth practical tasks to cover more complex problems.

PS

5.0Reviewed Aug 5, 2017

Very useful course for anyone who wants to learn about how public cloud networking works! Thanks for this course.

FJ

5.0Reviewed Dec 3, 2016

Great Course. Content is very rich and assignments are very good to illustrate the concepts.

SD

5.0Reviewed Aug 14, 2018

This course was the best in the entire specialisation. The tutors were too good, very very dedicated.

EH

5.0Reviewed Nov 9, 2019

Very good course. The videos content is very engaging and the assignments and quizzes are neither too hard nor to easy. Learned a lot in this course! Thank you very much to the professors and staff.

OM

5.0Reviewed Feb 1, 2017

Very good course, with well prepared materials. Programming assignments were a bit too easy.

DM

5.0Reviewed Dec 2, 2021

T​his course was very interesting, and was delivered by an instructor clearly at the forefront of an emerging discipline.

BM

5.0Reviewed Nov 28, 2016

A phenomenal course on the challenges and solutions of today's Cloud infrastructures. The material is high quality and sourced from the best in the world. I'm extremely satisfied.

MM

5.0Reviewed Sep 15, 2018

Super course that dives into details of cloud computing networking. Very insightful for a software engineer.

ZL

4.0Reviewed Jul 12, 2017

The materials of the course are not deep but can test your interest in this area

SS

5.0Reviewed Sep 25, 2018

Great course! Would have liked to see a longer version of this course. Learned a lot!

DT

4.0Reviewed Nov 11, 2016

The video lectures were excellent. So much so that I wish they covered more of the material rather than relying on reading academic papers. Thanks!

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