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2-tier spine-leaf topology A newer network topology design from Cisco Systems that is used in technologies such as Cisco ACI. The two tiers are called spine and leaf. Each leaf device is connected to every spine device in a full mesh. The spine is considered the backbone or the core of the network. The spine is the glue that allows for the communications between leaf devices. If one leaf needs to send traffic to another leaf, it must send the traffic through the spine.
802.1Q A technology that inserts tags into frames in order to identify the virtual local-area network (VLAN) to which traffic belongs when traveling over a trunk link.
802.1x A security protocol suite for authentication of local-area network (LAN) and wireless ...
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