Re: OOT: FabricPath in DCN

Hello Friends, Yuri I hope you are doing well.

Interop's network this year will be based on SPB, as they chose Avaya.

The 2014 Olympics will also run on SPB ...

SBP - the only IEEE and IETF standard out there ... I don't see Trill
making it except with articles written to create drama and the two vendors
trying to recreate the wheel in order protect their sales base (Brocade and
Cisco).

Every switch will run SPB as the STP replacement, every switch including
your $100 switch from Walmart. Whats more is SPB is not only for your DC,
but for end to end. So you can design your network from end to end and not
have separate technologies running here and there with integration
complexities.

I wish Cisco would chose SPB ... with their R&D resources, it would greatly
help the industry. They have too great of an install base to consider
... and so going to SPB would open the flood gates to allow other vendors
the ability to displace them and coexist with them.

Look to the end of this, the SPB section about 4/5 down the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_Tree_Protocol

HTH,
Andrew #31840

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Yuri Bank <yuribank_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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