Spine and Leaf Networks, an Outline

Nick Schmidt
May 22, 2021

With the previous post, I covered traditional data center networking, and some of the reliability compromises made to accommodate typical workloads. Here I’ll be outlining my take as a series of blog posts on the next iteration of data center network design, Spine and Leaf:
Lab Diagram

Note: This page may change based on content. I’m going to try and keep things generic up until the very end.

Originally published at https://blog.engyak.net.

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Nick Schmidt

I am a network engineer based out of Alaska, pursuing various methods of achieving SRE/NRE