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Clouds host a wide range of the applications that we rely on today. In this course, we study common cloud applications, traffic patterns that they generate, critical networking infrastructures that support them, and core networking and distributed systems concepts, algorithms, and technologies used inside clouds. We will also study how today's application demand is influencing the network’s design, explore current practice, and how we can build future's networked infrastructure to better enable both efficient transfer of big data and low-latency requirements of real-time applications. The format of this course will be a mix of lectures, discussions, assignments, and a project designed to help students practice and apply the theories and techniques covered in the course. Prerequisites: EN.601.226 or permission. Students can only receive credit for one of 601.419/619. Recommended: a course in operating systems, networks or systems programming.