Petersen B. Hardware-Defined Networking: Modern Networking from a Hardware Perspective

Juniper Networks Books, 2017. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-1-941441-51-0.n his new book, Distinguished Engineer Brian Petersen reveals patterns in networking protocols that have emerged over the past decades. It's fascinating reading about networking theories, operations, protocols, and practices from the perspective of the hardware that does the work of actually forwarding all of those packets.Hardware-Defined Networking (HDN) explores the patterns that are common to modern networking protocols and provides a framework for understanding the work that networking hardware performs on a packet-by-packet basis billions of times per second.These patterns are not revealed in the command line interfaces that are the daily tools of IT professionals. The architects and protocol designers of the Internet and other large-scale networks understand these patterns, but they are not expressed in the standards documents that form the foundations of the networks that we all depend upon.HDN presents these essential networking patterns and describes their impact on hardware architectures, resulting in a framework that software developers, dev ops, automation programmers, and all the various networking engineers can understand how modern networks are built.