Cisco Nexus Switch Routing

Labels, Filters, and Subjects – Cisco Describing Cisco ACI

Labels, Filters, and Subjects Label, filter, and subject managed objects enable mixing and matching among EPGs and contracts so as to satisfy various applications or service delivery requirements. Contracts can contain multiple communication rules, and multiple EPGs can both consume and provide multiple contracts. Labels control which rules apply when communicating between a specific pair

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Distributed Ledger Technology

Cisco ACI Overview – Cisco Describing Cisco ACI

Cisco ACI Overview Cisco ACI is a spine/leaf network of Nexus 9k switches using the ACI operating system with a management platform. The network management platform called APIC provides a single place from which the network can be managed. Cisco ACI solutions have the following building blocks: Cisco ACI resolves the following challenges of traditional

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Distributed Ledger Technology

Spine Switches – Cisco Describing Cisco ACI

Spine Switches Spine switches interconnect leaf switches and provide the backbone of the ACI fabric. Spine switches are available with various port speeds, ranging from 40Gbps to 400Gbps. Within a pod, all tier-1 leaf switches connect to all spine switches, and all spine switches connect to all tier-1 leaf switches, but no direct connectivity is

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Describing Cisco ACI

VXLAN Data Plane – Cisco Network Virtualization

VXLAN Data Plane VXLAN uses stateless tunnels between VTEPs to transmit traffic of the overlay Layer 2 network through the Layer 3 transport network. Let’s discuss a few terms before we look at the actual packet walk for the VXLAN data plane:     Figure 7-16 VXLAN Routing When an EVPN VTEP performs forwarding lookup and

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