Overlay networks consist of a series of virtual or physical computers layered on top of an existing network. The purpose of the overlay network is to add missing functionality without a complete ...

There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

A logical network that runs on top of another network. For example, peer-to-peer networks are overlay networks on the Internet. They use their own addressing system to determine how files are ...