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Interconnecting 2 Existing Fabrics

Interconnecting 2 Existing Fabrics

gtkins121
New Contributor II

Hey,

Fairly new to Extreme & Fabric engine.

I have inherited a fabric engine deployment, 7520's as the Core of the network (still getting used to fabric esq terminology) with a mixture of 4000/5000 switches for the edge. We have an integration with Control in Site Engine for policy enforcement. We have users that roam to our network from a 3rd party (neighboring company) and work within the physical boundaries of our network and there is a longer term strategy to integrate Our fabric with the third parties Extreme fabric. We essentially have areas of our buildings where both companies have representatives collaborating on projects. We want to basically be able to accomodate their segmented VLANs/I-SID's as well as them accomodate ours. Any tips/pointers in the right direction for planning this would be great. I understand at this point that their I-SID's would need to be unique to ours and the VLANs if present on same switch. We are also conscious we want to ensure control, protection and segregate routing information etc. or would it literally just be easier to just have a trunk port between the two fabrics?

Any reference material would be great, or if anyone has experience doing this?

Cheers

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Roger_Lapuh
Extreme Employee

Hi  

 
 this sounds like a perfect request for a multi-area design. Multi-Area will give you the option to decide which ISIDs can talk across the area boundary and you can also control which VRFs and which IP routes you want to redistribute between the entities.
 
Roger

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EF
Contributor III

Hi gtkins121,

I dont have experience on yuor enviroment so I cant give you tips, but about this "or would it literally just be easier to just have a trunk port between the two fabrics?" I can tell you this works but be carefully with multicast, if you need extend it between independet fabrics is not easy (https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/spbm-multicast-between-two-fabr...)

Good luck!!!

EF

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