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Is There a Path to Multi-Path?

MLAG Diagram

Given all the recent discussions and articles flying around in regards to TRILL, SPB, MLAG and other architectures and protocols, I thought it would be opportune to pen down some thoughts in this regard. Two recent articles in Network World and Network Computing have brought some of this discussion to the forefront. TRILL and SPB are both standards-based [...]

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The Clouds Are Opening Up

  There is an interesting transformation going on around the cloud and the network architectures to support cloud services – be they private, public or Hybrid. Much of the early vendor discussion and approaches were very much black box approaches, the assumption being that in order to seamlessly move between the silos of virtualization, server, [...]

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