In this podcast, I interview Dinesh Dutt, a well known engineer and author, and ask him to explain the application of the Clos topology to data center networks, used in enterprises and clouds.
This first short video is an introduction to the topic.
The following podcast goes in more details about the Clos networks and compare them with access-aggregation-core networks.
These two pictures, from Dinesh book, Cloud Native Data Center Networking may be helpful in following the discussion.
Access-Aggregation-Core network
Simple Clos Network
Dinesh book Cloud Native Data Center Networking published by O’Reilly in 2020, ISBN 9781492045601 has a lot of material on the topic.
My book has a brief description of Clos in chapter 2.
You can read an independent review of the book here.
The book was also listed in The Top 10 Best Cloud Storage Books You Need to Read in 2020.
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