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Facebook's Datacenter and Backbone Networks

Speaker: Dr. Rishi Sinha, Facebook

Talk Title: Facebook's Datacenter and Backbone Networks

Abstract: This talk will cover the design, operational, performance and capacity issues in global networking for large online services, using Facebook as a case study. We will describe Facebook's datacenter and backbone network architecture, explain the characteristics and unique demands of traffic generated in serving a billion daily users, detail the motivations for Facebook's decisions to adopt a next-generation fabric network architecture and to design its own network switches and accompanying operating system, and provide insights into the protocol and software engineering work that is applied to solving performance and capacity challenges in Facebook's network. Finally, we will point to open areas for research and commercialization.

Biography: Dr. Sinha is a performance capacity engineer at Facebook and leads several projects on server capacity planning, network capacity planning, efficiency, and data center logistics. Prior to joining Facebook at 2012, he worked at Brocade where he developed analysis tools for flow control bottlenecks in storage networks, and at Akamai where he worked on reliability of real-time streaming. He has extensive experience in packet flow analysis, experimentation and implementation of internet-scale systems and has four patents on networking related technologies. Dr. Sinha is a Trojan and completed his PhD at USC in 2006.

Host: Alefiya Hussain

Location: Mark Taper Hall Of Humanities (THH) - 210

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Alefiya Hussain