Are you confident in your cross-cloud strategy? Think again. Many organizations make the mistake of assuming that extending their SD-WAN to the public cloud is as straightforward cross-cloud strategy. This oversimplification can lead to significant operational and scalability challenges. To truly leverage the power of cross-cloud connectivity, you need a well-planned and meticulously designed approach that integrates seamlessly with public cloud networking services. Here’s why your cross-cloud network strategy needs more than just IPsec tunnels between public clouds and why careful planning is crucial for success.
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Azure virtual WAN (vWAN): Lessons Learned
Azure virtual WAN (vWAN ) is undoubtedly a strong choice in the wide-area network (WAN) connectivity model, utilizing third-party backbones. It holds significant potential and functionalities, but it is also a relatively immature and evolving service with certain limitations in use cases that deviate from the Azure reference architecture.
In this post, I would like to share my first-hand experiences and lessons learned from integrating vWAN into my use case. I hope that these insights can assist you in making decisions and implementing workarounds to address challenges arising from certain limitations.
Here we go!🚀
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Zscaler Internet Access – Client Connector Forwarding Modes
The cloud has fostered the evolution of traditional connectivity models to improve the user and application experience. Security is becoming a growing concern as traditional perimeters are disappearing and a Zero Trust approach is essential in today’s security architectures.
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Cisco SD-WAN Policies Introduction
I want to share with you a summary of the key points in SD-WAN Policies, their definition and implementation, to build a flexible and adaptable architecture to the needs of end-users and applications.
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SD-WAN – Why is it becoming more and more relevant?
As you know, there has been a huge increase in the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. This has made WAN become the main protagonist to achieve the new technology trends in the industry:
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Cisco ACI – Management In-band
This post covers a non-best practice design for the Management Network in Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure). The implementation of Management In-band instead of the recommended Management Out-Of-Band (OOB). An OOB network increases the odds that you will be able to access the devices in the event that the fabric is experiencing production issues and is unavailable.
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EVPN/MPLS vs VPLS
The aim of this post is to show a brief comparison of some key points for EVPN/MPLS and VPLS. You can see the details in the table below.
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