IEEE 802-2018
Nendica Report: The Lossless Network for Data Centers

Standard No.

IEEE 802-2018

Release Date

2018

Published By

IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers@ Inc.

Status

Be replaced

Replace By

IEEE 802-2021

Latest

IEEE 802-2021

Scope

Modern data centers are tasked with delivering intelligent multi?media responses to real? ime human interactions. Massive amounts of data are being churned and sifted by highly parallel applications@ such as Online Data Intensive Services (OLDI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)@ which historically required specialized High?Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. New advancements in high?speed distributed solid?state storage@ coupled with remote direct memory access (RDMA) and new networking technologies to better manage congestion@ are allowing these parallel environments to run atop more generalized next generation cloud infrastructure. Generalized cloud infrastructure is also being deployed in the telecommunication operator??s central office. The key to advancing cloud infrastructure to the next level is the elimination of loss in the network@ not just packet loss@ but throughput loss and latency loss. There simply should be no loss in the data center network. Congestion is the primary source of loss and in the network@ congestion leads to dramatic performance degradation. This paper discusses the need for new technologies to combat loss in the data center network and introduces promising potential solutions.

IEEE 802-2018 history

• 2021 IEEE 802-2021 Nendica Report: Intelligent Lossless Data Center Networks
• 2018 IEEE 802-2018 Nendica Report: The Lossless Network for Data Centers
• 2014 IEEE 802-2014 Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture (IEEE Computer Society Document)
• 2004 IEEE 802/AMD 2-2004 Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture IEEE Computer Society
• 2003 IEEE 802/AMD 1-2003 Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture IEEE Computer Society
• 2001 IEEE 802-2001 Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture IEEE Computer Society Document
• 1990 IEEE 802-1990 Standards for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture (IEEE Computer Society)
• 1955 IEEE 802-1955 Proposed Test Code DIRECT= CURRENT CARBON-PILE VOLTAGE REGULATORS for AIRCRAFT (IEEE Computer Society)