Today I came across “Why TRILL won’t work for data center network architecture” by Anjan Venkatramani of Juniper. Anjan’s article makes a few myopic and flawed arguments in slamming TRILL, setting up a sale for QFabric. The stated problems with TRILL include FCoE, L3 multi-pathing, VLAN scale, and large failure domains. The one and only Ivan Pepelnjak has already tackled the [...]
“Jawbreaker”, merchant silicon, QFabric, and flat networks
June 10, 2011 By 7 Comments
Brad, can you elaborate on Cisco’s Jawbreaker project? What exactly is it? Is it a response to Juniper’s Q-Fabric? Is it an attempt to rectify the inconsistencies in the differing purpose-built approaches of the N7K and N5K? Why create a new architecture? It seems like Cisco is really in trouble – creating a new architecture, [...]
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