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J. JanovicCisco ACI: Zero to Herohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8838-2_8

8. Service Chaining with L4-L7 Devices

Jan Janovic1  
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Prague, Czech Republic
 

Cisco ACI includes a significant number of tools to implement and enhance security and segmentation from day 0. I have already discussed tenant objects like EPGs, uEPGs, ESGs, and contracts permitting traffic between them. Even though the ACI fabric is able to deploy zoning rules with filters and act as a distributed firewall itself, the result is more comparable with a stateless set of access lists ACLs. They are perfectly capable of providing coarse security for traffic flowing through the fabric, but ...

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