June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 20m
English
This chapter provides a speculative overview of the emerging technologies and architectures that could revolutionize the future of data center interconnect (DCI) without compromising the stability of large bridging domains.
The need to extend a VLAN across multiple sites is a key reason why DCI is a primary focus of the application and server side of the IT community.
The key question is this: Will this requirement last for long or will server-to-server applications evolve and integrate IP routing for their control-plane traffic? It is difficult to predict the future, especially in the world of virtualization, which is in its inception. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile ...
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