ipSpace.net Design Clinic

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ipSpace.net Design Clinic is a monthly Zoom call open to ipSpace.net users with active paid subscription. Each session starts with a whiteboarding discussion of multiple design challenges submitted by ipSpace.net subscribers and concludes with an open-mike discussion of whatever technology topics the audience finds interesting.

The discussions are recorded, and the best bits are published as parts of relevant webinars or as a stand-alone collection.

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Contents

The design clinic started in September 2021 and is run approximately once a month. We discussed the following topics in the past sessions. For more details, check out the webinar materials.

March 2023

  • BGP routing with WAN edge firewalls
  • Hardening network devices
  • Direct- or VPN connectivity to public clouds

February 2023

  • Small site multihoming with IPv6
  • Zero-trust network architecture

September 2022

  • GPON in campus networks
  • BGP route servers
  • Redundant VXLAN-based DCI
  • Redundant BGP-based Internet access
  • Securing multi-homed customer BGP configuration

June 2022

  • VXLAN and EVPN as DCI technology
  • Multi-tenant enterprise core network
  • Running VXLAN over SD-WAN
  • Selecting Data Center WAN edge equipment
  • Tools for enterprise public cloud deployments

April 2022

  • Carrier Ethernet basics
  • Building Carrier Ethernet networks
  • Content delivery networks
  • Running applications in multi-cloud environment
  • Networking engineers in multi-cloud world

March 2022

  • Inter-VRF route leaking
  • Integrating storage in leaf-and-spine fabrics
  • Data Center Interconnect encryption
  • Migrating to a leaf-and-spine fabric
  • Monitoring ECMP behavior in leaf-and-spine fabric

January 2022

  • Encrypted public cloud connectivity
  • Multi-tenant public cloud networking
  • Enterprise WAN design
  • Impact of AWS Transit Gateway on application performance
  • Using public cloud as SD-WAN
  • MACsec over Carrier Ethernet networks

December 2021

  • Multi-VRF designs
  • Internet in a VRF
  • Multi-homed servers (To MLAG Or Not to MLAG)

November 2021

  • Leaf-and-spine fabrics outside of data centers
  • Migrating application stacks into public clouds
  • Point-to-point versus VLAN interfaces

October 2021

  • Subnet sizing
  • First steps in IPv6 deployments
  • Scalable data center firewalls
  • IPv6 addressing plans and prefix delegation

September 2021

  • Microsegmentation principles in campus environments
  • Implementing IP transport services across an enterprise IP backbone
  • Overlay virtual networking implementations: software or hardware?

The Author

Ivan PepelnjakIvan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is an independent network architect, book author, blogger and regular speaker at industry events like Interop, RIPE and regional NOG meetings. He has been designing and implementing large-scale service provider and enterprise networks since 1990, and is currently using his expertise to help multinational enterprises and large cloud- and service providers design next-generation data center and cloud infrastructure using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) approaches and technologies.

Ivan is the author of several books covering data center technologies, highly praised webinars, and dozens of data center and cloud-related technical articles published on his blog.

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