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Microsoft / Azure (edge & host SDN)

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Front Door Anycast → private WAN → origin

Published Front Door path: Anycast to a nearby PoP, edge processing / split TCP, then Microsoft private WAN toward healthy origins. Not a PoP count claim.

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Anycast HTTP(S)Internet clientFront Door PoPMicrosoft private WANHealthy origin

DNS/HTTP traffic uses Anycast so the client reaches a nearby Front Door PoP. Primary and fallback VIP rings handle preference and overflow as documented.

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Host SDN: VFP → AccelNet SmartNIC

Teaching path from guest VM through VFP host virtual switch with AccelNet SmartNIC offload. Fabric beyond the host remains undisclosed.

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Guest VMVFP (host vSwitch)tenant policySmartNIC (AccelNet)Azure fabric (undisclosed)

Almost all Azure virtual networking features are implemented in host virtual switches via VFP layered match-action tables (NSDI 2017).

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Service Fabric platform (2018 paper era)

EuroSys 2018 Service Fabric as a dense microservices platform on shared machine pools. Historical — not a live 2026 Azure scheduler map.

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Microservice AMicroservice BService Fabric (2018 paper)era-labeledShared machine pool

Service Fabric provides a distributed platform for building microservices on shared machine pools, with design lineage since the early 2000s and production use described since ~2007 in the paper.