Articles by tag "EVPN-VXLAN"

1. Designing a 100G Metro Triangle for a Small MSP: Juniper EX/QFX/ACX vs. Multivendor Options
   Selene Gong

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   For small Managed Service Providers (MSPs), upgrading from a 40G to a 100G metro network is a crucial step in scaling operations and meeting the increasing demand for bandwidth. A typical MSP might have a 3-site metro dark fiber "triangle" topology, where high availability and network ...
2. Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Selection Guide: Architecture & Sourcing
   Selene Gong

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   When you are performing a midnight vSAN migration or scaling out an EVPN-VXLAN fabric, the last thing you want to see is silent packet drops across your leaf switches due to microbursts or port flapping caused by Forward Error Correction (FEC) mismatches. In high-density virtualized ...
3. Is Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Still Worth Buying in 2026?
   Selene Gong

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   Imagine a midnight vSAN storage migration across your enterprise cluster where suddenly, random storage nodes report latency spikes and silent packet drops. You trace the issue back to your legacy leaf switches struggling with microbursts. As you plan a critical 25GbE switch upgrade to modernize ...
4. Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 Spine-Leaf Deployment Guide
   Selene Gong

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   When you are performing a midnight vSAN migration or scaling out an enterprise AI training cluster, the last thing you need is silent packet drops across your leaf switches. In high-throughput environments, a single microburst can saturate static packet buffers, leading to TCP retransmissions, ...
5. Juniper EX4400 vs EX4300: Sizing EVPN-VXLAN Deployment at the Enterprise Campus Edge
   Selene Gong

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   Quick Take The Juniper EX4400 is the definitive choice for modern EVPN-VXLAN campus edge deployments, leveraging programmable Broadcom Trident 3 silicon to deliver line-rate single-pass VXLAN routing. While the legacy EX4300 remains a viable option for basic Layer 2 Virtual Chassis ...