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Lukas Krattiger

Cisco Fellow, Cisco Networking

Data Center, Technical Marketing Engineering Cisco

Lukas Krattiger leads Cisco Networking’s Data Center Networking Technical Marketing Engineering (TME) organization, a crucial function helping to define and build foundational solutions for Cisco customers and partners. In this role Lukas is focused on making networking simpler to deploy, configure and manage while extending the value of Cisco networking holistically by enhancing the user experience. Additionally, Lukas is focused on adapting networks for changing data patterns and requirements of modern workloads such as artificial intelligence with breakthrough innovations in silicon, systems, and software, solidifying Cisco’s cloud management strategy and offer including the delivery of SaaS-enabled network controllers. As a Cisco Fellow, Lukas is part of an exclusive community of technologists and strategists who are critical to Cisco’s success. Lukas serves as an influential voice in key technical and business decisions that shape Cisco’s connectivity strategies. He has 25+ years of experience in cloud, data center, internet, application, and telecommunication networking specializing in data center switching architectures and solutions across platforms. He is a double CCIE (Routing & Switching, Data Center) with several other industry certifications and participates in various technology leadership and advisory groups. Lukas was born in Switzerland and is multilingual. After a long stint in Silicon Valley Lukas now resides in The Woodlands, Texas with his wife and daughter, and has fully embraced the warmth of the southern United States.

Articles

December 2, 2020

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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.

September 16, 2020

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DATA CENTER

Detecting and Mitigating Loops in VXLAN Networks

6 min read

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS VXLAN addresses the most prevalent loop scenarios within and among multi-site data centers to build and maintain a stable and resilient network architecture for your organization.

August 17, 2020

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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.

June 11, 2020

DATA CENTER

Miercom Tests and Verifies Cisco Data Center Network Manager

3 min read

Cisco DCNM is a complete data center manager for simplifying the management of VXLAN-EVPN network fabrics while lowering operational costs. Miercom has made it the recommended management solution

August 26, 2019

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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.

April 17, 2019

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DATA CENTER

Change is the only constant – vPC with Fabric Peering for VXLAN EVPN

7 min read

Change is the only constant – vPC just changed and Cisco removed the physical Peer Lin, the first vendor in the industry to do so. Introduction Over the course of...

June 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Where’s my Endpoint?

2 min read

Is there a way to know what endpoints are alive within your data center at this moment? Is it possible to continuously monitor the life of every endpoint – be it a Virtual Machine (VM), a physical host or even a container ? Enter Endpoint Locator or EPL! With DCNM available as a manager for […]

April 20, 2017

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DATA CENTER

3rd Annual Interoperability Testing: Converging on a Standard

5 min read

This year, a total of seven vendors participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing, showing significant industry adoption year over year.

February 5, 2015

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VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane

3 min read

Given the tremendous interest in VXLAN with MP-BGP based EVPN Control-Plane (short EVPN) at Cisco Live in Milan, I decided to write a “short” technology brief blog post on this topic. VXLAN (IETF RFC7348) has been designed to solve specific problems faced with Classical Ethernet for a few decades now. By introducing an abstraction through […]