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Posts in 2014

  • Are Cisco Nexus 1000v, CSR 1000v and Vyatta the same thing?

    Thursday, July 10, 2014 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    Brief version: No, they are not. Long version: No, they are not. Nexus 1000v is used for L2 interconnection of the VMs. On the other side, Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000v is, in my opinion, a direct competitor of Vyatta /vi:áta/ (acquired by …

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  • Network Virtualization vs SDN

    Thursday, July 10, 2014 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    SDN (Software Defined Networking) and Network Virtualization, although often in the “same basket”, are two different concepts. Network Virtualization (NV) decouples and isolates “virtual” networks from the underlying physical …

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  • CCIE vs SDN

    Tuesday, July 01, 2014 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    Most of you who’ve been following my blog in the past, or even most of you who’ve stumbled upon it by randomly looking for “some Cisco stuff “on Google, are aware that this blog was originally designed as my personal notebook …

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