topic Fabric connect deployment in ExtremeSwitching (VSP/Fabric Engine)

Fabric connect deployment

Maryam — Tue, 21 May 2024 07:11:29 GMT

Where can I deploy a fabric connect technology ?

Can I deploy it just in service provider company or in any company want to improve its network from traditional network to fabric connect ?

Re: Fabric connect deployment

EXTR_Paul — Tue, 21 May 2024 13:59:59 GMT

I have been working with FabricConnect for over 13 years.

The beautiful thing about FabricConnect is that you can deploy it anywhere you want. It comes down to business and technical requirements. Which FabricConnect can solve.

Going back to Avaya we did have customers in the ISP space. As well as small, medium and large enterprise campus and datacentre. As well as niche networks such as CCTV, IoT, Building control and everything in-between.

Once people understand the scale, simplicity and robustness of FabricConnect it becomes an easy choice.

I personally have worked on projects as small as 3 switches. Or a single campus of 800 switches. Or DataCentres as small as two switches up to 200 switches.

Re: Fabric connect deployment

WillyHe — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:24:36 GMT

Fabric connect is developed for private networks and, in my opinion, the ideal solution for private networks.

Sub-second fail-over for uni-cast and multi-cast traffic (no spanning-tree, U-CAST or M-CAST/IGMP rerouting timeout issues).
No loops.
Simplified configuration, once the basic setup is done.
NO changes are to be done on the backbone switches (BCB's (Backbone Core Bridges)).
Only configure the access switches (BEB's (Backbone Edge Bridges)) with vlan's/IP subnets/VRF's/...
Simple to "manually" configure BEB access switches,
Create a vlan.
Assign ports to the vlan.
Assign the I-SID to the vlan and done, no uplink ports to configure.
Easy to make all vlan's, subnets, vrf's, ... available between all sites even geographically distributed over the globe, only simple L2 or L3 provider connection is required.
Just configure e.g. a vlan or vrf on an access BEB switch, assign access port(s) and done.
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Re: Fabric connect deployment

Maryam — Thu, 23 May 2024 06:10:06 GMT

Thank you

Re: Fabric connect deployment

Maryam — Thu, 23 May 2024 06:10:29 GMT

Thank you