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[Gaffers]

At infosec last week i noticed cisco were peddling IAM pretty hard.  That fits with what a good friend of mine said a couple of years ago.

Maybe in 5 years cisco will be a very supplier than we know today.

[VXL V6]

At infosec last week i noticed cisco were peddling IAM pretty hard.  That fits with what a good friend of mine said a couple of years ago.

Maybe in 5 years cisco will be a very supplier than we know today.

As far as I can see, Cisco doesn't have an interest in selling tin in the future, they see themselves as a software vendor based on the standards and patents they own with. However, their 40Gb leaf and spine optical technology and the use of Cisco Asics with T2's purely forwarding gives them some cash in the pot for some time yet.

It's interesting that the first customer for the 9K's was Microsoft and thus the ACI has that Microsoft feel to it. Funny really that the 9K's at Microsoft are running in standard mode - T2 Only.

[TheBoy]

At infosec last week i noticed cisco were peddling IAM pretty hard.  That fits with what a good friend of mine said a couple of years ago.

Maybe in 5 years cisco will be a very supplier than we know today.

As far as I can see, Cisco doesn't have an interest in selling tin in the future, they see themselves as a software vendor based on the standards and patents they own with. However, their 40Gb leaf and spine optical technology and the use of Cisco Asics with T2's purely forwarding gives them some cash in the pot for some time yet.

It's interesting that the first customer for the 9K's was Microsoft and thus the ACI has that Microsoft feel to it. Funny really that the 9K's at Microsoft are running in standard mode - T2 Only.

9k? Is that the ASR9000 series?  They can shift some data, but can't put 2 ports in the same vlan/broadcast domain

[VXL V6]

Forget all you ever new about networking with ACI, everything is a /32 from now on.

[Kevin Wood]

What's happened to this thread? The TLAs are DMFHI. 

[aaronjb]

i've met so many people with Cisco qualifications who haven't got a clue when it comes to installing kit on site or applying some basic logic to a problem.

Oh, I thought we'd already hired them all here! 

[TheBoy]

Forget all you ever new about networking with ACI, everything is a /32 from now on.

Which has been a bit of a snag, when the iLOs in our HP Proliant servers don't support /32, so we have to start giving them /30s, all of a sudden losing 4 RIPE IPs instead of 1 for each iLO, and having to justify it given the scarcity of IPv4 addresses.

[VXL V6]

Forget all you ever new about networking with ACI, everything is a /32 from now on.

Which has been a bit of a snag, when the iLOs in our HP Proliant servers don't support /32, so we have to start giving them /30s, all of a sudden losing 4 RIPE IPs instead of 1 for each iLO, and having to justify it given the scarcity of IPv4 addresses.

Fear not IPV6 will fix this minor detail, IP's will never ever be a problem again... honest.

Oh hang on though.... I think I can see a flaw in the plan.

Anyway, lets not worry about ancient underlying technology, it's just so 1970's, it's a World of Tennants and Contracts from now on.... as long as you have underlying technology that works.