December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
625 pages
12h 51m
English
In this chapter, you will focus on establishing a proper understanding of the main ACI components: the underlay network infrastructure and APIC controllers with their architectural deployment options. In ACI, hardware-based underlay switching offers a significant advantage over various software-only solutions due to specialized forwarding chips. Thanks to Cisco’s own ASIC development, ACI brings many advanced features including security policy enforcement, microsegmentation, dynamic policy-based ...