Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Sep 23, 2022 · Industry Insights

How Alibaba’s µFAB and Solar Redefine Predictable High‑Performance Data Center Networks

This article analyzes Alibaba Cloud’s µFAB and Solar research papers from SIGCOMM 2022, explaining why predictable high‑performance networks are needed, how the two designs achieve bandwidth and latency guarantees through network transparency and host‑network co‑ordination, and presenting theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate significant performance gains.