Tom Edsall

March 4, 2014

DATA CENTER

ACI Design Principles: The role of SDN Overlays in Application Centric Deployments – Part 2

This is the second of a two-part blog series developed in association with Tom Edsall, a Cisco Fellow and CTO of Insieme Networks, recently acquired by Cisco Systems. While Part 1 focused on the role of SDN overlays and deployment considerations, this one delves into the benefits derived from such a…

March 3, 2014

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Cisco Champion Radio on ACI and Nexus 9000

How ACI lets you manage a network cohesively instead of box-by-box ? What a network looks like in ACI mode vs. stand-alone mode ? How ACI works with network protocols like spanning-tree and TRILL ? Upgrading the Nexus 9000 Series to ACI When does ACI make sense for your business ? For this new epis…

February 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

ACI Design Principles: The role of SDN Overlays in Application Centric Deployments – Part 1

This is a two-part blog series developed in association with Tom Edsall, a Cisco Fellow and CTO of Insieme Networks, recently acquired by Cisco Systems. The intent is to elaborate on foundational design principles of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a transformational approach for next-gene…