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Faraz Taifehesmatian

Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Data Center & Cloud

Faraz Taifehesmatian is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the Data Center Networking group with over 16 years of experience in the field. He specializes in the Nexus product lines and has extensive expertise in NPU architecture, switch architecture, QoS, RoCEv2, VXLAN EVPN, and AI/ML-based Data Center Network Architecture.

Articles

May 19, 2026

DATA CENTER

Cisco N9000 excels in EANTC 2026 VXLAN EVPN and timing tests

5 min read

At EANTC 2026, Cisco N9000 switches dominated 12-vendor validation tests, including VXLAN EVPN and secure PTP/MACsec. These results prove Cisco’s open, AI-ready architecture is the industry standard for performance and multivendor integration.