Choosing Your Next Data Center Fabric: Cisco’s ACI or EVPN, Part 3
Key differentiators between Cisco’s fabric options, Application Centric Infrastructure and Ethernet VPN.
Cisco customers have a choice between Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for building their data center network fabrics. Since these technologies are thought to be interchangeable, the choice often falls to cultural, political or other “Layer 8” decision-making. But the fabric technologies are, in fact, different in ways both subtle and significant,…