Chapter 6. Infrastructure Segmentation Architectures: Practice

This chapter analyzes how the virtualization technologies and architectures introduced in Chapter 4, “A Virtualization Technologies Primer: Theory,” and Chapter 5, “Infrastructure Segmentation Architectures: Theory,” can effectively be used in the enterprise, specifically in campus networks and metropolitan-area networks (MANs).

Chapter 5 discussed the trade-off between scalability and complexity in the different VPN architectures. Based on scalability and complexity, different architectures apply to different places in the network. Depending on where in the network a VPN architecture is used, there will be deployment subtleties and best practices to follow. This chapter delves into ...

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