Stephen Hauser sent me an interesting question after the Data Center fabric webinar I did with Abner Germanow from Juniper:
A common theme in your talks is that L2 does not scale. Do you mean that Transparent (Learning) Bridging does not scale due to its flooding? Or is there something else that does not scale?
As is oft the case, I’m not precise enough in my statements, so let’s fix that first:
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