> Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:34 AM > > On Wed, May 1, 2019, at 00:15, [email protected] wrote: > > > Converting DC to standard MPLS network and all your problems are solved. > > Just talk about converting DC to MPLS and you will start having other kind of > problems. > IMHO, if DCs didn't massively adopt MPLS is because lack of training and what > I call "end-user mentality". In lots of cases you are dealing with people that > when you say "MPLS" they understand "site-to-site L3VPN using some magic > technology" (that they don't understand). > Yeah that's exactly it, I'm against this "end-user mentality" on a daily bases when talking about other "magical" stuff like MD-SAL or YANG.
> Others do understand some tiny > bits but see it as a "carrier technology". And there's enough of them so that > manufacturers take their opinion in consideration. Result => VXLAN. > Though it's interesting that the same people who are afraid of the simple bit which is the hop by hop transport are fine with the complex EVPN bit on top :) But I get it vendors nowadays assume the crowd's networking knowledge is subpar hence these nicely pre-packaged click a button solutions for DC deployments. > Those being said, there are DCs that managed to go the MPLS way, but it > looks more like an exception rater than the rule. Unfortunately. > We'll see what time brings. adam _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
