Re: OOT: FabricPath in DCN

The Layer2 flexibility that a TRILL/SPB based network provides is very
appealing, especially for data center networks where all of your servers
are virtualized. It makes everything very easy to work with, both from a
physical standpoint and logical standpoint. My only concerns are with VLANs
getting too big, and sloppy design, since it becomes much easier to get
lazy and deploy applications without any thought of optimal traffic flow.

I've been looking mostly into Cisco FabricPath & Avaya SPBm. Both solutions
look really good to me, but I think when the Open TRILL standard gets
pushed out, a lot of vendors will adapt to that.

-Yuri

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Alexander Lim <cisco.alexand_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Guys,
>
> m(_ _)m Sorry it's OOT. Please let me know if there is a more appropriate
> forum/mailing-list for this kind of discussion.
>
> I am interested if any of you have implemented FabricPath in your data
> centre network? Or other similar technology: TRILL/SPB 'compatible' from
> other vendor?
> Do you think it is the way to go for DCN? Or it is just a transit
> technology to other tech, i.e. SDN?
> Thank you for sharing.
>
> Regards,
> Alexander Lim
>
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