Heavy Networking 580: Multivendor EVPN? Nope

Building an EVPN VXLAN data center fabric in a multivendor environment should be straightforward. It’s a standard, so everything should just work, right? Guest Tony Bourke stops by the podcast to explain why this isn’t always the case. Along the way, he and Ethan Banks also nerd out on use cases for MP-BGP EVPN VXLAN, hardware challenges, automation strategies, EVPN flooding mechanisms, BGP multi-homing, and more. They also provide background on VXLAN and MP-BGP EVPN. Be warned: the network design principle of “it depends” comes up more than once. Tony Bourke is both an IT and skydiving instructor (presumably not at the same time). He blogs at The Data Center Overlords. Sponsor: CBT Nuggets CBT Nuggets is IT training for IT professionals and anyone looking to build IT skills. If you want to make fully operational your networking, security, cloud, automation, or DevOps battle station visit cbtnuggets.com/heavynetworking. Show Links: MPLS-SDN-NFV Interoperability Showcase 2016 Whitepaper – EANTC (PDF) EANTC AND 19 VENDORS TEST INTEROPERABILITYIN EVPN, SEGMENT ROUTING, SDN, MICROWAVE AND CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION – EANTC (PDF) Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test – EANTC (PDF) @tbourke – Tony Bourke on Twitter Datacenteroverlords.com