Upcoming Topics

Short questions

• Unified policy across multi-OEM multi-domain fabrics (example: Cisco SDA —> VMware NSX —> Azure)
• Scaling private cloud (VMWare) with focus on networking
• Where to start with microsegmentation? Particularly how to plan/prepare/design/implement in a brownfield environment
• Transition from collapsed core or 3-tier to a leaf-spine
• Designing the network with proper IPS placement
• Make sure ECMP works over spine and leaf fabric (tests, benchmarks, early issue detection)

Other suggested topics

• Branch Office Design
• DDoS Mitigation with Traffic Blackholing
• Dual homing hosts (to MLAG or not to MLAG)
• eBPF versus SmartNIC
• Generic Data Center Design
• Internet in VRF
• Leaf-and-Spine Fabrics beyond Data Center Networks
• Multi-VRF design without EVPN/VXLAN
• Network device hardening
• Over-the-top MPLS for Multi-Tenant Cloud Networks
• Replacing firewall instances with Azure firewalls
• SVI versus P2P interfaces
• Technologies and protocols vendors love to talk about