Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/913260/

At the recently concluded Netdev
0x16 conference, which was held both in Lisbon, Portugal and virtually,
Stanford professor John Ousterhout gave his personal views on where
networking in data centers needs to be headed. To solve the problems that
he sees, he suggested some “fairly significant changes” to those
environments, including leaving behind the venerable—ubiquitous—TCP
transport protocol. While LWN was unable to attend the conference itself,
due to scheduling and time-zone conflicts, we were able to view the video of
Ousterhout’s keynote talk to bring you this report.