Category: CISCO

EDGE Data centers gearing up for the future : A case study with CDN, Netflix and Cisco.

Introduction The essence of today’s technological progress is the explosive growth in data transfer, with global internet traffic projected to double within the next 3–5 years. Almost daily, we hear about new data centers being deployed — from industry giants to smaller players — all investing heavily to expand capacity. But simply building more infrastructure… Read More EDGE Data centers gearing up for the future : A case study with CDN, Netflix and Cisco.

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Application Centric Networking has a new address in Cisco Data Center.

Coming from the traditional routing and switching world, stepping into Cisco ACI felt like entering an entirely new universe. If you’ve ever worked with ACI, you probably know exactly what I mean. The questions that always lingered in my mind were: Why application-centric networking? Why is it important? And how is it achieved? In the… Read More Application Centric Networking has a new address in Cisco Data Center.

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Cisco Nexus(NXOS) : Seamless handoff (Interworking) between BGP EVPN based VxLAN fabric and SR-MPLS network.

Introduction Segment Routing has now gained significant traction, with many greenfield ISP core deployments leaning towards SR-MPLS or even SRv6. While traditional MPLS networks are still in operation, data centers can no longer avoid interfacing with SR-MPLS-based transport networks. One of the key advantages of adopting an SR-MPLS handoff — instead of a pure Inter-AS… Read More Cisco Nexus(NXOS) : Seamless handoff (Interworking) between BGP EVPN based VxLAN fabric and SR-MPLS network.

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FlexPod your DC with Cisco and NetApp collaboration

I was in CiscoLive 2023 Amsterdam and I got to visit this really cool product called FlexPod. This single rack has your Compute, storage, Network(Nexus switches) and Fabric interconnects(FI). Who wouldn’t like having something like this in their datacenter. Since the day all these individual techs and boxes are available, people are looking to integrate… Read More FlexPod your DC with Cisco and NetApp collaboration

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Quick Network Automation post on Cisco NSO Compliance Reporting.

What is compliance reporting. Network Configuration compliance is very important for all business entities for various purposes like external or internal audits, maintaining standards within the org etc. However, it is not that easy to maintain the uniformly complaint configuration when you have thousands of devices scattered globally serving in different business domains. In compliance… Read More Quick Network Automation post on Cisco NSO Compliance Reporting.

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GNS3 LAB Cisco : Nexus 9000v Control-plane based VxLAN BGP-EVPN Bridging Config and Verification.

I wrote few blogs on BGP EVPN and also on VxLAN earlier. My previous blogs were focused on IOS-XE and IOS-XR devices, recently I have started my Data Center journey and hence I wanted to do some labs on Nexus devices as well and what better place than GNS3 for this ? I got to… Read More GNS3 LAB Cisco : Nexus 9000v Control-plane based VxLAN BGP-EVPN Bridging Config and Verification.

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