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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]