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VXLAN Innovations on the Nexus OS: Part 1 of 2
VXLAN Innovations on the Nexus OS: Part 1 of 2
Posting this blog on behalf of Babi Seal, Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU and Lukas Krattiger, Principal Engineer, INSBU Virtual Extensible LAN or VXLAN for short has been around...
Aug. 31, 2017
The Cisco Nexus 9516 Thrusts Itself into the Record Books
The Cisco Nexus 9516 Thrusts Itself into the Record Books
October 2017 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the world record set for the fastest automobile ever recorded – the appropriately named “ThrustSSC” that
Aug. 10, 2017
Policy Driven Automation Enables Innovation or Why Customers Adopt Vscale Architecture
Policy Driven Automation Enables Innovation or Why Customers Adopt Vscale Architecture
Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking.  They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric...
July 19, 2017
Cisco Nexus Reaches Another Impressive Milestone through Continued Innovation Delivery
Cisco Nexus Reaches Another Impressive Milestone through Continued Innovation Delivery
Cisco recently announced a major customer milestone in our data center portfolio with the news that the Unified Computing System topped more than 60,000
June 26, 2017
Why 50% Lower Cost and 50% Improved Application Performance with a Cisco IP Storage Fabric Matters for the Real World
Why 50% Lower Cost and 50% Improved Application Performance with a Cisco IP Storage Fabric Matters for the Real World
Discussions of enterprise storage networking often focus too much on the speeds-and-feeds of a given technology or system and very little on the use case. Is Fibre Channel faster than...
June 6, 2017
Delivering Cloud Services at Cloud Scale with Cloud Economics
Delivering Cloud Services at Cloud Scale with Cloud Economics
Super Tuesday delivers DC switching portfolio innovations and acceleration of hybrid cloud Today is Super Tuesday, with fourteen states and territories hosting primary elections. Lots of media and preparation goes...
March 1, 2016
New VersaStack™ optimized for distributed workloads
New VersaStack™ optimized for distributed workloads
It has been said that data is the new oil. Given the price of crude today, the metaphor seems to fit in that there is just too much data in the world, to
Feb. 1, 2016
A Summary of Cisco VXLAN Control Planes: Multicast, Unicast, MP-BGP EVPN
A Summary of Cisco VXLAN Control Planes: Multicast, Unicast, MP-BGP EVPN
With the adoption of overlay networks as the standard deployment for multi-tenant network, Layer2 over Layer3 protocols have been the favorite among
March 12, 2015
VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane
VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane
Given the tremendous interest in VXLAN with MP-BGP based EVPN Control-Plane (short EVPN) at Cisco Live in Milan, I decided to write a "short" technology
Feb. 5, 2015