VXLAN

March 24, 2022

NETWORKING

Why Transition to BGP EVPN VXLAN in Enterprise Campus

5 min read

As the number of EVPN leaf nodes increases overlay prefixes and the blast radius in the network grows, the network architects shall consider building a structured Multi-Site overlay networking solution.

March 24, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 2: Theoretical vs. tested?

3 min read

Customers expect complete vendor transparency when it comes to equipment performance in a production deployment. This is where Cisco goes above and beyond the competition, being fully transparent with publicly available verified scalability guides for cloud networking infrastructure and controllers, tested in environments using unidimensional and multidimensional configurations for single and multi-site environments.

December 2, 2020

DATA CENTER

All Tunnels Lead to GENEVE

6 min read

Cisco Nexus 9000 with a Cloud Scale ASIC has extensive hardware capabilities to support legacy, current, and future Network Virtualization technologies, including the forthcoming GENEVE protocol.

August 25, 2020

DATA CENTER

Enhancing Business Resiliency with Data Center Cloud Networking

4 min read

Connecting public and private cloud data centers has never been more important for improving business resiliency. To prepare for future upheavals, IT can proactively build secure DC and Cloud interconnects with Cisco Multi-Site and DCN Advantage subscriptions.

August 24, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco NX-OS VXLAN Innovations Part 1: Inter-VNI Communication Using Downstream VNI

4 min read

Acquisition and mergers involve integration of both business and IT infrastructure and there is a need for fast and seamless integration. Similarly, in shared-services scenario, tenants in a network need transparent access to the extranet or shared services in more flexible fashion. Cisco VXLAN EVPN Downstream VNI provides greater flexibility and time savings when it comes to integration of disjoint networks and shared-service deployments.

August 17, 2020

DATA CENTER

Multi-Site Data Center Networking with Secure VXLAN EVPN and CloudSec

4 min read

Business-critical applications need redundant data centers to maintain high-availability. But data transfers between Availability Zones and Regions generally have to travel over public infrastructure, which are more vulnerable to threats. Using Multi-Site Secure VXLAN EVPN with CloudSec provides state-of-the art Data Center Interconnect with Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

March 20, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco Introduces Segment Routing v6 on Nexus 9000 GX Series Platforms

5 min read

Segment Routing v6 facilitates multi tenancy and traffic engineering in data center networks, leverages IPv6 underlay and forwarding, and is suitable for scalable data center and core/WAN deployments.

September 30, 2019

DATA CENTER

Continuing innovations on Nexus9K ITD – Additional server load-balancing use cases

3 min read

Announcing Cisco's new Intelligent Traffic Distribution (ITD) features on NX-OS 9.3.1 release. Developed to address concerns with respect to capacity limitation on network service appliances in a multi-terabit environment.

August 26, 2019

DATA CENTER

VXLANv6 – VXLANv-what?

5 min read

With the expansion of network virtualization, infrastructure resources like IP addresses have to be reserved for applications and services as well. As a result, IP address overlap occurs in the underlay and overlay, exhausting unique RFC1918 addresses.