crossbow discuss - Oct 2007 - Please review Network Virtualization page for Wikipedia

Hi Everyone -

Here is a draft of the first of two "pages" that I will submit to
Wikipedia. The first page is a general network virtualization page. From this
page, I will contribute a subpage on the Crossbow projects. These two articles
are the first of a number of online articles on Crossbow that I''ll be
creating on behalf of the Crossbow iteam.

The article uses Wikipedia''s recommended, encyclopedic style. It is
essentially a survey.  The attached file is in GenHTML. Some of the links
aren''t live but they will be when I redo by hand the article in
Wikipedia''s Wiki markup.

Anyway, I apologize for the generic, vendor-neutral nature of the first article.
And I welcome contributions, even before this article gets posted on Wikipedia.

- Stephanie Brucker
 
 
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On 10/3/07, Stephanie Brucker <stephanie.brucker at sun.com>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone -
>
> Here is a draft of the first of two "pages" that I will submit to
Wikipedia. The first page is a general network virtualization page. From this
page, I will contribute a subpage on the Crossbow projects. These two articles
are the first of a number of online articles on Crossbow that I''ll be
creating on behalf of the Crossbow iteam.
>
> The article uses Wikipedia''s recommended, encyclopedic style. It
is essentially a survey.  The attached file is in GenHTML. Some of the links
aren''t live but they will be when I redo by hand the article in
Wikipedia''s Wiki markup.
>
> Anyway, I apologize for the generic, vendor-neutral nature of the first
article. And I welcome contributions, even before this article gets posted on
Wikipedia.
Nice first draft... however, I can''t comment on the crossbow stuff as
I am not a domain expert. :)

If this is going to be a wikipedia article, you may want to touch on
some of the following topics.:

1) reverse proxys as in virtual servers on a load balancer.
2) vmware has the ability to configure "virtual network segments",
virtual routers and virtual switches. (Virtual appliances). Basically
you can build an elaborate virtual network on a single server.
3) NAT, and SNAT
4) WAN emulation
5) Network proxies of any type particularly PEPs.
6) MPLS/LAN Emulation/MPOA/Ethernet over Frame Relay/Sonet
7) Network Tunneling
8) VPN (Virtual Private Network)

I''m also cc''ing networking-discuss to get you more eyeballs.
(I hope
you don''t mind.)

Cheers,
Brian
>
> - Stephanie Brucker
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Hi Brian -

Thanks for your comments and cross-posting, too. In fact, i should put this on
sysadmin-discuss, as well. I''m going to add you comments on VMware to
my document. I''m not going to add information about VPN, which is well
documented in Wikipedia. The other subjects you mention are food for research.
I''m not going to put them on my page, but I will put your ideas in the
discussion page that accompanies my page. That way people who are knowledgeable
about these topics can add them, if they choose.

- Steff
 
 
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