This post covers a non-best practice design for the Management Network in Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure). The implementation of Management In-band instead of the recommended Management Out-Of-Band (OOB). An OOB network increases the odds that you will be able
EVPN/MPLS vs VPLS
The following table shows a comparison of some key points for EVPN/MPLS and VPLS: Feature EVPN/MPLS VPLS Use MPLS Transport Yes Yes Protocol Evolution (Design Life) Next Generation Legacy MPLS Fast Reroute (FRR) < 50ms Yes Yes L2 Stretching Yes
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) and IGP Routing Protocols
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) is a multipoint GRE-based tunnelling technology. DMVPN consists of one or more hub routers that are configured as Next-Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) Next-Hop Servers (NHS). NHS, or hubs, are used to create mappings between the public
Datacenter Application Control Engine (ACE) – High Availability
Although Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) modules are End of Live, it is still common to find them deployed in Datacenters. The intention of this post is to get a better understanding of a High Availability deployment for Routed Mode
N+1 HA Wireless LAN Controller
N+1 HA /HA-SKU Wireless Controller Redundancy The N+1 HA feature builds upon the N+1 redundancy model by allowing a single WLC (Wireless LAN Controller) to be deployed as a backup for multiple primary WLCs. N+1 deployment requires additional AP licenses
Cisco Unified Wireless Network Solution – Guest Wireless
Background Public WLAN has caused mobile workers to become accustomed to being able to access their corporate network from practically anywhere. This paradigm of public access has extended to the enterprise itself and brings a well-founded apprehension over how to
Cisco ASA Cluster – Spanned EtherChannel Mode
ASA clustering consists of multiple ASAs acting as a single unit, see Figure 1. Spanned EtherChannel is the Cisco recommended implementation in which interfaces on multiple members of the cluster are grouped into a single EtherChannel; the EtherChannel performs load