Opinions on intent-based networking

2018-05-29 Thread LF OD
Been following the articles on "intent-based" networking from Cisco and other vendors for a couple years now, and I have a basic grasp of the concept of "define your goals/outcomes and automation will make it so", but I do not know the practical applications of it or how you are supposed to conv

Question about experiences with BGP remote-AS

2017-05-05 Thread LF OD
We have a number of small routers in co-lo sites that peer with B2B partners. As more of our partners move to cloud, we are considering a consolidation effort and putting all of our peering routers in a cloud exchange site on a single HA pair of routers. Now, each existing B2B peering router us

Are there inexpensive DWDM products?

2017-11-02 Thread LF OD
We have several buildings and a couple data centers spread around the city and interconnected via dark fiber. It's a very simple setup - no ROADM, no real ring, no extended layer-2 or layer-3 via the optical gear. Pretty much we just mux/demux a channel for each building so that each building

Re: Are there inexpensive DWDM products?

2017-11-02 Thread LF OD
_ From: NANOG on behalf of LF OD Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:01 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Are there inexpensive DWDM products? We have several buildings and a couple data centers spread around the city and interconnected via dark fiber. It's a very simple setup - no ROADM