The wide-area network (WAN) has been business-critical for decades, but in many ways, the architecture hasn’t changed dramatically – until recently. The shift to cloud application workloads is accelerating as

At Juniper Networks, we have been leading the data center design conversation for many years. From Spanning Tree Protocol (STP or xSTP) and MC-LAG to leaf-and-spine IP fabrics and network

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As network engineers, we are repeatedly encouraged to “Design security in from day one”— especially in this age of increasingly large and damaging breaches. It’s easy to say “Design security

In a previous blog on Getting Started with Modern Data Center Fabrics, we discussed the common modern data center (DC) architecture of an IP fabric to provide base connectivity, overlaid

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Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth? It’s that time again. The one when we’re thinking about the upcoming year based on any intelligence we’ve been

If someone could arrange a competition between different physical network topologies, the spine-and-leaf fabric would reign as the undisputed champion in many ways. What is different about the spine-and-leaf that

In a previous blog on Getting Started with Modern Data Center Fabrics, we discussed the common modern DC architecture of an IP fabric to provide base connectivity, overlaid with EVPN-VXLAN