segment routing
XR7, Not Just Another Release
When IOS XR was first designed, mass-scale networking and its related challenges were not around. However, we already had a clear vision of building a highly scalable, reliable, available, upgradeable, high-performance NOS for the service provider space that caters all the way from low-end single c…
Handy Tips on Accelerating Your DAA Deployment
This blog was co-authored by Jerome Katz, Cisco VP/GM, SP Customer Experience. Cable’s digital transformation has been focused on the access network transformation. The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is poised to lead that transformation. While technology has been standardized and well-…
Equinix Segment Routing-powered network delivers increased value to its customers
Guest Author: Muhammad Durrani Leading Global Network Architecture and Engineering Equinix Segment Routing 101 Segment Routing (SR) is a flexible and scalable way of performing source routing. The source chooses a path and encodes it in the packet header as an ordered list of segments. Eac…
VXLAN EVPN – De-Facto Standard, Open and Interoperable
Authored by Faraz Taifehesmatian: Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Why interoperability and standardization is relevant to you Interoperability provides options for you to mix and match the technology based on your business needs. Either you want to adapt new innovations, or refresh your infrastr…
Making the jump from generic outcomes to customer use cases
Living in the Northern Rockies, we have the privilege of enjoying all four seasons. This winter we enjoyed a record snow pack and fantastic ski season, with remnant snow piles still dotting the shady sides of many yards. Living in this climate every fall we are confronted with a barrage of adds wa…
Join Cisco at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris
The MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019 is right around the corner. It goes without saying that this conference is a must to attend as it succeeds in gathering a large panel of industry experts from hyper-scale providers, telcos, enterprises, universities and networking vendors. While this year’s agend…
5G IP Transport – A Strategic Opportunity for Service Providers
The race to 5G is intensifying as exemplified by a number of public announcements made by leading mobile operators. However, deeper conversations with service providers yield a very simple but important question. How will we make the investments in 5G upgrades profitable? The bet is that 5G technol…
Cisco ASR 9000 Reloaded For Mass Scale Networking
The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…
Celebrating Segment Routing’s 5th Birthday
Segment Routing is the term widely used in the industry to refer to Source Packet Routing In Networking (SPRING), as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Cisco has pioneered Segment Routing since 2012 and has led the standardization efforts with the support of a group of lead opera…
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