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One of the most interesting capabilities introduced by EVPN is native active-active multihoming.

Many modern enterprise and cloud data center networks have standardized on a combination of BGP, EVPN, and VXLAN to build scalable Layer 2 and Layer 3 fabrics.

For decades, network architects designed data center networks primarily around application and storage traffic.

Over the past decade, Clos-based leaf-spine architectures have become the default design for data center networking.

Leaf-spine is the default.

The fastest GPU is only as fast as the slowest packet.

Over the last year, we’ve seen explosive interest in agentic AI systems built with LLM-powered components that can reason, plan, call tools, and coordinate with other agents.

If you work in technology long enough, every new framework starts to sound like “yet another API layer.”

Cisco’s latest announcement at Partner Summit 2025 introduced Cisco Unified Edge, a converged compute platform designed to bring agentic and inferencing AI workloads closer to where data is actually generated, such as the branch, the factory, the retail f…

I’ve been speaking with more folks again recently about AI initiatives in their IT organizations.