Understand business requirements before jumping into a network design in order to ensure they're aligned, networking expert says.
As discussed in a previous blog post, IETF designed EVPN to be next-generation BGP-based VPN technology providing scalable layer-2 and layer-3 VPN functionality. EVPN was initially designed to be used with MPLS data plane and was later extended to use numerous data plane encapsulations, VXLAN being the most common one.
Like any other BGP-based solution, EVPN uses BGP to transport endpoint reachability information (customer MAC and IP addresses and prefixes, flooding trees, and multi-attached segments), and relies on an underlying routing protocol to provide BGP next-hop reachability information.
Read more ...The 25G Ethernet network infrastructure integrates with cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure software stacks from vendors including VMware, Nutanix, Red Hat, and Microsoft.
Unless the TM Forum spends more time on the cultural challenges, most operators will continue to struggle to make meaningful strides toward the holy grail of becoming bona fide Digital Service Providers.
Welcome to Summer 2018! It’s been nearly one month now since our CEO Pat Gelsinger announced the Virtual Cloud Network vision at Dell Technologies world in Las Vegas. Essentially the reveal (in my personal opinion) was focused on raising awareness that VMware has now delivered to the market what many of you have heard for quite some time now as “the vision” for networking and security, whereas NSX has become an integral part of many various parts of your business:
Enter stage left, the Virtual Cloud Network. VCN builds upon the fundamentals you’re already familiar with from NSX—these include (but are not limited to) integrated security, consistent connectivity, and inherit automation, but really focuses on tying together an end-to-end architecture that allows our customers to deliver applications and services everywhere. Our customers have asked and we have listened… the demand for any infrastructure, any cloud, any transport, any device, and any application has drastically changed the landscape and technologies associated with building/architecting and having a modern enterprise network.
We’ve been quite busy over the past month with lots of interest coming from partners and customers wondering what this really means. Well today the wait Continue reading
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AT&T provides the underlying global 3G connectivity that Honeywell manages using the company’s service delivery platform.