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Lukas Krattiger

Principal Engineer Technical Marketing

INSBU

Lukas Krattiger is a Principal Engineer in Technical Marketing with 18+ years of experience in Data Center, Internet and Application Networks. Within Cisco's INSBU, he is specialized in Data Center Switching Architectures and Solutions across Platforms.

Lukas is a double CCIE (R&S, Data Center) with several other industry certifications and participates in various technology Leadership- and Advisory-Groups.

Prior to joining Cisco, Lukas was a Senior Network Engineer at System Integrator and Service Providers responsible for Data Center and Internet Networks. Since joining Cisco, he covered various technologies within the Data Center as well as Enterprise Network portfolio and built foundational solutions for Customers and Partners. Current projects do include innovative approaches for automating Data Center Networks and optimizing Networking with Overlays.

Recent publications include the Cisco Press title "Building Data Centers with VXLAN BGP EVPN: A Cisco NX-OS Perspective".

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August 26, 2019

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VXLANv6 – VXLANv-what?

Virtual Extensible LAN (also known as VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. With the recent launch of Cisco’s VXLANv6, we’ve added the Cisco overlay, and run it over an IPv6 transport network…

April 17, 2019

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

Change is the only constant – vPC just changed and Cisco removed the physical Peer Link, the first vendor in the industry to do so for MC-LAG. Optimize Usage of Available Interfaces, Bandwidth, Connectivity Dual-homing for endpoints is a common requirement, and many Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (M…

June 19, 2017

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Where’s my Endpoint?

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 da…

April 20, 2017

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3rd Annual Interoperability Testing: Converging on a Standard

For the third year in a row, Cisco participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). The interoperability showcase and test results are featured in the EANTC white paper as a part of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress. This year, a…

February 5, 2015

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VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane

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 fe…