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Re: SD-WAN Solutions


From: "Sabina M." <sabina () auxes is>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 10:28:01 -0400

Thanks everyone for replying! 

As for why I'm asking, working today together with a $customer in order to figure out integration with other VXLAN 
environments, and extending the control plane past just the nuage solution. There's plenty of customers that use either 
basic VXLAN (think Cisco N9k with barebone VXLAN EVPN, not ACI), Juniper Contrail and others. The "rumors" that I heard 
regarding the nuage solution is that so far, Nokia/Alcatel hasn't implemented the RFC for EVPN to the letter and that 
there there's quite a bit of custom stuff in there (from sym/asym routing methods) to signaling and all. 

My question boils down to when/how will nuage implement interoperability with other vendors at VXLAN level? In the SP 
market we've had it for years where you can have MPLS on a variety of boxes and the network wouldn't suffer from this. 
It seems with VXLAN it's less cooperative (and I understand there's more to it now than just the protocol and it's more 
a fabric approach)

Also, can you maybe tell me/us more about these extensions? 


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On May 24, 2018 11:40 PM, Alastair Johnson <aj () sneep net> wrote:

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On 5/24/18 5:43 AM, Sabina M. wrote:

Has anyone worked with Nuage from around here? Additionally, is anyone familiar with what RFC Alcatel/Nokia is 
implementing for the VXLAN part of the solution? It looks a bit non-standard but I can't find any clear 
documentation regarding this anywhere

Cheers,

S.

Hi Sabina,

I work for Nuage Networks. What can I help you with? Happy to discuss

our architecture, but may I know why you are asking?

VxLAN is just the datapath. Control plane is based on EVPN and is

standards-based for our DC overlay platform, but the SD-WAN product uses

a number of extensions.

Regards,

AJ

aj () nuagenetworks net



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