Today its a special show focussing SPB – Shortest Path Bridging. The not quite finished, any day now, IEEE standard to offers a successor to Q-in-Q bridging and delivers L2 mulitpath technology. After a fine rant by Greg on a blog post Rant: Why SPB Doesn t Get Any Attention, some members of the SPN group got in touch by the comments. Lets talk it out.
Show Notes.
- Shortest Path Bridging – IEEE Standard 802.1aq
- PBB provider backbone bridging – SPBM (MAC-in-MAC)
- SPBV – VLAN – regular ethernet (Q-in-Q)
- Discussion how VEPA & VEB could readily replace vSwitch in VMware.
- Some discussion the “openness” of the IEEE (even though they hide all their proceedings and documentation)
Relevant Links
Guests
Paul Unbehagen http://alcatel-lucent.com/
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Roger Lapuh http://www.avaya.com
Peter Ashwood-Smith http://huawei.com
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