Talk:Overlay network
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Network Overlay or Overlay Network?
[edit]I've heard the latter form much more often. I would recommend moving to that form and redirecting from Network Overlay to there. Justification:
- On Google: 6,810 hits for "Network Overlay", 81,400 hits for "Overlay Network". Similar results in Google Scholar.
- NSDI, one of the major networking conferences, uses "Overlay Networks" as the subject matter of one of their tech sessions [1].
Any disagreement? -- Nethgirb 07:28, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
logical address and IP address
[edit]"For example, distributed hash tables can be used to route messages to a node having specific logical address, whose IP address is not known in advance."
The DHT is a good example of an overlay network, but this statement gives the impression that there is a distinction between a logical address and an IP address (an IP address is a logical address). Baxevanis (talk) 14:31, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Merge?
[edit]It might make sense to have one better-quality article instead of stubs for one-time projects like Resilient Overlay Network and End System Multicast that might not meet notability standards. Any objection? W Nowicki (talk) 16:46, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
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Encaps
[edit]I need some help, can you please give your opinion on how and where to add these 'overlay network' concepts/protocols to the current article:
- VXVLAN: Virtual_Extensible_LAN
- NVGRE: Network_Virtualization_using_Generic_Routing_Encapsulation
- STT: Stateless Transport Tunneling
- NVO3: Network Virtualization Overlays
- Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
And of course to: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-bgp-routing-large-dc/ and http://etherealmind.com/usage-of-overlay-and-underlay-networking/
Thanks! --Never stop exploring (talk) 02:02, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
World Wide Web?
[edit]Why on earth isn't the World Wide Web listed as an overlay network?! It's easily the most widely know network that runs on top of the Internet! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.159.95.2 (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
- The WWW isn't a network; it's a protocol for transferring data through an existing network, along with a format for such data and the collection of data thus transferred. Xnft (talk) 15:40, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
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