Building Data Centers with VXLAN BGP EVPN: A Cisco NX-OS Perspective

About David JansenLukas KrattigerShyam Kapadia

Lukas Krattiger CCIE No. 21921 (Routing/Switching and Data Center) is principal engineer Technical Marketing with more than 15 years of experience in data center Internet and application networks. Within Cisco he specializes in data center switching overlay architectures and solutions across platforms. Lukas is a double-CCIE (R&S and Data Center) with several other industry certifications and has participated in various technology leadership and advisory groups. Prior to joining Cisco Lukas was a senior network engineer with System Integrators and Service Providers where he was responsible for data center and Internet networks. Since joining Cisco he has covered various technologies within the data center as well as enterprise networks portfolio and he has built foundational solutions for customers and partners. Shyam Kapadia is a principal engineer in the Data Center Group at Cisco Systems. With more than a decade of experience in the networking industry Shyam holds more than 30 patents and has coauthored the book Using TRILL FabricPath and VXLAN: Designing MSDC with Overlays. In his 10 years at Cisco Shyam has worked on a number of products including the Catalyst and Nexus families of switches with special emphasis on end-to-end data center solutions including automation and orchestration. He holds a Ph.D. and masters degree from the University of Southern California in the field of computer science. Over the past 15 years Shyam has been the Program Chair for the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE). David Jansen CCIE No. 5952 (Routing/Switching) is a distinguished systems engineer (DSE) for Cisco specializing in data center campus branch/WAN and cloud architectures. He has 20 years of experience in the industry and has earned certifications from Novell VMware Microsoft TOGAF and Cisco. His focus is working with global enterprise customers to address their challenges with comprehensive end-to-end data center enterprise WAN/Internet and cloud architectures. David has been with Cisco for more than 19 years; for the last 4 years or so as a DSE he has gained unique experiences in building next generation data center solutions.