Re: OOT: FabricPath in DCN

Thanks Andrew!

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Andrew Lissitz wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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<javascript:;>
> > >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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