“With PortLand, we came up with a set of algorithms and protocols that combine the best of layer 2 and layer 3 network fabrics,” said Amin Vahdat, senior author of the paper and a computer science professor at UC San Diego, in a statement” Network world has more on this story here: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081709-portland.html
How to build a 100,000-port Ethernet switch
“With PortLand, we came up with a set of algorithms and protocols that combine the best of layer 2 and layer 3 network fabrics,” said Amin Vahdat, senior author of the paper and a computer science professor at UC San Diego, in a statement” Network world has more on this story here: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081709-portland.html