Spine-and-leaf architecture

 

 

 

 

You learned about spine-and-leaf architecture and the improvements this design offers over the older, three-tiered architecture. Some of the advantages this design are improved redundancy, decreased latency, increased performance, improved scalability, increased security, and reduced expense. The spine-and-leaf switch architecture is especially adaptable to newer networking technologies, such as virtualization and hybrid cloud. Do some research online about spine-and-leaf architecture and respond to the following question:

· What are the advantages and disadvantages of building the spine-and-leaf network at layer 2 (VLANs) or layer 3 (subnets)?

 

 

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