Before Recitation

Read Physical Deployability Matters by Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes. This is a recent paper (2023) from the HotNets workshop, which covers so-called "hot topics" in networking.

Question for Recitation

Before you come to this recitation, you'll submit a brief response to the following questions on Canvas (really—we don't need more than a sentence or so for each question). Your answers to these questions should be in your own words, not direct quotations from the paper.

• What is this paper about? What do the authors mean by "physical deployability"?
• Who is impacted by concerns of physical deployability in datacenter networks?
• Why hasn't physical deployability typically been a topic of concern for networking researchers? (Presumably there is no one single, correct answer, so take this question to mean: why do you think physical deployability hasn't been a topic of concern)

As always, there are multiple correct answers for each of these questions.

During Recitation

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