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dlr5288
7/31/2016 5:33:45 PM
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Re: Common sense wins out over human perception
I was having a bit of a hard time understanding this myself. However, I tink it's a good idea and the offices will have more of a flow to them.
JohnBarnes
7/31/2016 4:08:39 PM
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Re: Common sense wins out over human perception
freehe,
The second article does raise a good point: the fewer connections, the fewer places you need to implement checkpoints for security. Traditional architecture had many fewer connections so you only needed a few checkpoints, and big parts of the system could readily be isolated. Leaf and spine needs many more checkpoints for the same degree of security. By the same token you only needed a cop at each station and one on the train for railroad security, compared to large numbers of police and a whole patrol schedule for a highway system -- but nobody really wants to go back to railroads now that you can drive where you want when you want. Security for leaf-spine will be made to work, because users and IT are going to want leaf-spine to work.
freehe
7/31/2016 2:34:01 PM
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Re: Common sense wins out over human perception
freehe
7/31/2016 2:21:45 PM
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Re: Common sense wins out over human perception
JohnBarnes, thanks for the definition.
faryl
7/23/2016 10:25:54 PM
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Re: Common sense wins out over human perception
Am I understanding the achitecture correctly that the leaf-to-spine connection is a physical one (i.e., a cable is used to connect the leaf to the spine)?
If so, is that as complex (or at least a PITA) to set up as I'm thinking it is?
JohnBarnes
7/23/2016 9:35:52 PM
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Common sense wins out over human perception
I confess I had to go look up the leaf-spine topology versus the more traditional tree structure. And two things are really striking:
1) path lengths through leaf-spine are much shorter than through trees, and max path length is sharply limited
2) Leaf-spine is really, really hard to draw clearly and to message-trace!
Wonder how many other features of todays systems are there because 50 years ago it was easier to draw them with a felt pen on a napkin?
Re: Carrier Grade Requirements
Good questions! I'm going to have a follow up story next week and I'll make sure to ask about these. Thanks
ScottK
7/21/2016 5:45:16 PM
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Carrier Grade Requirements
Excellent achievement! Can you comment on the Carrier Grade Requirements for Reliability, Scalabiity, and Maintainability that this project set as goals? Were they achieved? Have they published their architecture and results? What do you see as the next steps needed for this to be adopted by Carriers? Thanks!
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