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Mastering Python Networking
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Mastering Python Networking

by Eric Chou
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Cisco ACI

The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is meant to provide a centralized approach to all of the network components. In the datacenter context, it means the centralized controller is aware of and manages the spine, leaf, top of rack switches as well as all the network service functions. This can be done through GUI, CLI, or API. Some might argue that the ACI is Cisco's answer to the broader software-defined networking.

One of the somewhat confusing point for ACI is the difference between ACI and ACI-EM. In short, ACI focuses on datacenter operations while ACI-EM focuses on enterprise modules. Both offer a centralized view and control of the network components, but each has it own focus and share of tools. For example, ...

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ISBN: 9781784397005