Data Center Fabrics

Data Center Fabric Architectures

This 3-hour webinar describes the basics of Data Center fabric architectures offered by numerous vendors including Alcatel Lucent, Arista Networks, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, Force10 Networks, HP and Juniper.

The vendor-specific architectures are classified into the following major groups:

• Independent management, control and data plane – Multi-chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) and large-scale bridging solutions from ALU, Arista, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco and Force10.
• Centralized management, independent control and data planes – Cisco’s UCS Manager, Juniper’s Virtual Chassis and QFabric.
• Centralized control plane, distributed data planes - Cisco’s VSS, HP’s IRF, Juniper’s XRE.
• Centralized data plane – Port extender architectures
• Per-flow data plane setup – OpenFlow

Target Audience

This webinar is ideal for IT managers and networking engineers that have to look behind the vendor marketectures to understand the benefits and drawbacks of individual data center solutions.

If you are a network architect, designer or sales/support engineer working in data center environment, you simply have to attend this webinar.

Delivery Format

The Data Center Fabric Architectures is a 3 hour technical presentation. You can register for the on-line webinar immediately; we can also organize an on-site event, where the topics of this presentation are combined with in-depth discussion of other Data Center networking topics that apply to your network.

When attending the on-line webinar, you’ll get a PDF copy of the presentation materials at least a week before the webinar, giving you plenty of time to study the materials and prepare potential questions. The WebEx classroom instructions will be available two days before the event.

After the on-line webinar, you’ll get access to WebEx recording of the webinar that you’ll be able to watch as many times as desired.

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The Author

Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354) has been designing, deploying, operating and troubleshooting IP-based enterprise and service provider networks since 1990. He’s the author of EIGRP and MPLS books published by Cisco Press, numerous articles and highly praised webinars, including Data Center 3.0 for Networking Engineers and Data Center Interconnects.

His blog, where you'll find numerous data center- and virtualization-related articles, is usually considered one of the best technology-focused internetworking blogs.

More about Ivan Pepelnjak

You'll get

• Webinar materials in PDF format
• Live interactive session in a WebEx classroom
• Recording of your WebEx session

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To get more information about customized versions of this webinar, on-site workshops, pricing or scheduling details, please contact the author.

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