Data Center QoD: What is the Status of Today's EVPN Data Center?

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0:12 hi my name is eric stinson from

0:13 juniper's product marketing team and we

0:15 are kicking off a new series of question

0:17 of the day videos uh talking about the

0:20 data center and some of the things we're

0:21 doing to improve the experience in the

0:23 data center

0:24 today i have with me wen lin who is one

0:27 of juniper's distinguished engineers

0:29 welcome wen hi thank you eric for the

0:32 introduction sure thing um so our first

0:35 question to to kind of kick this off

0:37 um is just talking a little bit about

0:39 the data center so what is the status of

0:42 the evpn data center today and what are

0:45 some of the challenges that people are

0:47 facing

0:48 so nowadays

0:50 data center is built based on a spine

0:52 and a leaf architecture also known as a

0:55 cross fabric

0:56 and the evpn has been widely used in the

0:59 data center

1:01 to build virtualized overlay network

1:04 for the data center traffic

1:07 for the data center deployed in the

1:09 field today

1:11 the intelligence to build evpn overlay

1:14 network

1:16 for the east-west

1:17 data center traffic is mostly resigned

1:20 on the leaf device within the cross

1:23 fabric as a business grow

1:26 there may be a need to extend existing

1:29 data center

1:31 and but to meet the scale-out

1:33 requirement

1:35 we may need to add more

1:37 spine devices on

1:40 leaf devices

1:42 and we may need to have a more powerful

1:45 hardware platforms

1:48 but upgrade and scale out

1:51 the existing evpn data center is costly

1:55 so the current you are facing is how to

1:57 scale out

1:59 evpn data center

2:02 and this is challenging because we need

2:05 to consider supportability and the

2:08 compatibility

2:10 of all different types of hardware

2:12 platform

2:13 also with all new features being added

2:16 on a physical router we have to make

2:18 sure along the way we don't break any

2:21 existing component running on the router

2:24 that may or may not be directly related

2:27 to evpn

2:29 so to ensure the quality it usually

2:31 takes a long development cycle and

2:34 testing cycle to bring the new feature

2:36 to the product

2:39 today there's also a demand field large

2:42 evpn data center with a virtualized

2:45 workload so we need to build the evpn

2:48 data center with a cloud-native approach

2:53 to build a data center that can be

2:55 scaled out easily and to provide

2:59 simplicity

3:00 and

3:01 consistency and also for to build a

3:05 network that can be easily provisioned

3:09 and monitored and

3:11 can be also automated

3:14 to satisfy all those demands

3:17 we introduced

3:19 evpn

3:20 post-routed bridging

3:23 which is based on a cloud native

3:25 approach well that sounds pretty

3:27 interesting and the

3:28 evpn host routed bridging sounds like it

3:31 could be promising

3:32 so maybe we can dig into that in more

3:34 detail on a future question of the day

3:37 session thank you eric

3:39 yes thank you very much wen and uh hope

3:41 you have a great day and hope everybody

3:42 else has a great day as well thank you

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