Advances in Campus LAN Products Continue Rapid Growth
IT Connection Blog by Mike Fratto
Summary Bullets:
- Campus LAN networking has been evolving for years without receiving as much of the limelight as other technologies. That is going to change.
- Technologies such as SDN and multi-path Ethernet are making their way into the campus LAN and offer similar benefits.
While data center networking has been getting the lion’s share of press and analyst love in the last few years, campus networking has been undergoing a rather quiet and steady revolution that is just as compelling as data center networking, and it’s getting more so. The campus LAN already has a great deal of automation happening at the network edge, with capabilities such as network access control not only detecting hosts and users and granting access, but also configuring VLANs and applying QoS policies based on the user, the device, or the network. Many of the networking platforms, with help from a policy server, can enforce policies based on a variety of characteristics. Read more of this post at http://bit.ly/ZTyHsz
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