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Mar 31, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Google’s Andromeda Network Architecture: Design Goals, Control Plane, and Data Plane

The article reviews Google’s Andromeda network system presented at NSDI 2018, detailing its large‑scale design goals, a hybrid control‑plane model, high‑performance software data‑plane optimizations, hot‑cold flow separation, and rapid weekly updates that enable pure‑software SDN at cloud scale.