Meta Research

Today, we are happy to announce that we are releasing packet header samples from several of our datacenters to facilitate...

Academics come to work at Facebook at various stages of their career. Some join right after graduating; others join after...

This week, in collaboration with Cornell University, we are presenting our paper, Semi-Oblivious Traffic Engineering: The Road Not Taken at...

Networking is fundamental to the large-scale, distributed systems that power the family of Facebook applications that are used by billions...

This week at ACM SIGCOMM 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, we are sharing details on FBOSS, the system running on Facebook-designed...

This week at ACM SIGCOMM 2017 in Los Angeles, we are sharing details on Edge Fabric, the system we built...

Facebook and N2Women recently brought 15 top female PhD students and researchers from 10 universities to Fort Worth, Texas, to visit a data center.

On June 26, Facebook hosted a Networking and Communications Faculty Summit for 25 academic researchers and PhD students with backgrounds...

As a continuation of the 2020 Networking request for proposals (RFP), Facebook launched the 2021 Networking RFP with a focus...

In this paper, we show that up to hundreds of software load balancer (SLB) servers can be replaced by a single modern switching ASIC, potentially reducing the cost of load balancing by over two orders of magnitude. Today, large data centers typically employ hundreds or thousands of servers to load-balance incoming traffic over application servers.