[Nets-seminars] Talk tomorrow, Friday 18th January 2013 16:00

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget tomorrow's talk at 16:00 in GS/102 on 66-72 Gower Street. 
Our speaker is Justine Sherry from UC Berkeley who will be presenting 
extensions to her SIGCOMM work.

Title: "Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network
Processing as a Cloud Service".

Abstract:
Modern enterprises almost ubiquitously deploy middlebox processing
services to improve security and performance in their networks.
Despite this,  today’s middlebox infrastructure is expensive, complex
to manage, and creates new failure modes for the
networks that use them. Given the promise of cloud computing to
decrease costs, ease management, and provide elasticity and fault
tolerance,  middlebox processing can benefit from
outsourcing the cloud. Arriving at a feasible implementation, however,
is challenging due to the need to achieve functional equivalence with
traditional middlebox deployments without sacrificing
performance or increasing network complexity.

In this talk, I will present APLOMB, a
practical service for outsourcing enterprise middlebox processing
to the cloud. APLOMB's motivation and design are data-driven, guided by
a survey of 57 enterprise networks, the first large-scale academic
study of middlebox deployment. Our analysis shows that APLOMB solves real
problems faced by network administrators, can outsource over 90%
of middlebox hardware in a typical large enterprise network, and,
in a case study of a real enterprise, imposes an average latency
penalty of 1.1ms and median bandwidth inflation of 3.8%.

Bio: Justine Sherry is a third year PhD student advised by
Sylvia Ratnasamy at UC Berkeley . Her interests are in computer
networking, including middleboxes, measurement, Internet architecture,
and cloud computing. Justine
received her MS from UC Berkeley in 2012, and her BS/BA from the
University of Washington in 2010.
-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/