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Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post I would like to talk about VXLAN, what it is and what you can do with VXLAN. In later posts I will show some use cases for VXLAN. What is VXLAN VXLAN was designed by VMWare and is documented in RFC7348. The abbreviation VXLAN means Virtual Extensible Local Area Network and mainly provides a MAC-in-IP encapsulation. Doing this, … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute HP announced the new HP 5700 switch as the new data center access switch. The switch supports IRF and is SDN ready. You can find the announcement here: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/whats-new.aspx#.U_NThvmvX55 The switch is available in three different models: HP 5700-40XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG896A) HP 5700-48XG-4XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG894A) HP 5700-32XGT-8XG-2QSFP+ Switch (JG898A) For further details have a look at the … Read more