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DiscussionsNovember 26, 2019

Is IPV6 Dual-Stack really a best method for IPv6 design ?

There are mainly three IPv6 transition methods; Dual-Stack, Tunnelling, and Translation. Careful engineers can understand the difference between IPv6 migration and IPv6 transition. All of these three technologies are used...

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DefinitionsNovember 26, 2019

What is VPWS, VLL, EoMPLS?

Actually all are the same thing. VPWS stands for virtual private wire service , VLL stands for virtual leased line and EoMPLS stands for Ethernet over MPLS. MPLS Technologies and...

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Best Practices in Network DesignNovember 26, 2019

Route Redistribution Best Practices

Route Redistribution Best Practices - You need route redistribution for many reasons. In this post,the drivers for the route redistribution but more importantly the best practices for applying route redistribution...

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MPLSNovember 26, 2019

Carrier Supporting Carrier – CSC

CSC Carrier Supporting Carrier is a hierarchical MPLS VPN architecture between the Service Providers. Service is an MPLS VPN service mostly but doesn't have to be as you will see...

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MPLSNovember 26, 2019

MPLS Transport Profile & MPLS-TP & Basic Explanation and Key Points

MPLS-TP - Multi-Protocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) is a new technology developed jointly by the ITU-T and the IETF. The key motivation is to add OAM functionality to MPLS...

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IGPNovember 26, 2019

IS-IS Routing Protocol Interview Questions

IS-IS Interview Questions - IS-IS is a link state routing protocol. Commonly used in Service Provider networks. Back in old days, IS-IS routing protocol software was more stable and robust...

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Basic NetworkingNovember 26, 2019

Is Fate Sharing bad thing in network design?

Fate sharing in networking - Is fate sharing bad thing in network design? Someone asked this question recently on my youtube channel and I want to share a post for...

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Best Practices in Network DesignNovember 26, 2019

Design considerations for network mergers and acquisitions

Network mergers and acquisitions are processes that can be seen in any type of business. As network designers, our job is to identify the business requirements of both existing networks...

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BroadbandNovember 26, 2019

PS Core Network Concepts

Most of the educational documents related to PS Core Network start with Call Flows. Attach Call Flow, PDP Context, Paging, etc. Basically that was my problem when I started working...

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MPLSNovember 26, 2019

Inter AS Option C – Design Considerations and Comparison

Inter-AS MPLS VPN lets two or more service providers deliver an end-to-end Layer 3 VPN to a customer whose sites span different autonomous systems. There are three standard ways to...

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Basic NetworkingNovember 26, 2019

Datacenter Design: Shortest Path Bridging 802.1aq

IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) uses IS-IS as an underlying control plane mechanism that allows all the links in the topology to be active. In sum, it supports layer...

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Transport NetworkNovember 8, 2019

Route where you can , switch where you must – Is it true ?

Route where you can , switch where you must. If you are from networking background most probably you heard this many times. But is it true or like anything else,...

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