LISP Network Deployment and Troubleshooting: The Complete Guide to LISP Implementation on IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS

Chapter 8. LISP Network Virtualization/Multi-Tenancy

Any enterprise or service provider network today has multiple organizations sharing the same physical infrastructure to minimize capital and operating expenses. A service provider uses its infrastructure to host multiple customers and provides multiple types of services, ranging from Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual private networks (VPNs), Internet, transport service, voice, video, WAN links, and possibly cloud services. Enterprises also have various departments, such as human resources, finance, and engineering, that all utilize the same network infrastructure. This chapter shows how LISP allows logical segmentation in the network so multiple groups of users or types of services ...