1. Intelligent Fabric (iFab)
eDemo

2. INTELLIGENT FABRIC Network – key technology values
Automated Deployment => Faster Deployment => Reduced Time
Self-healing Network Fabric => Easier Support => Reduced Efforts
End-to—End Programmability => Better Integration => Upsell Services

3. INTELLIGENT FABRIC Plug-n-play zero-touch deployment
SPB CORE
AUTO-LACP
6900
VC AUTO-VFL
6900 VC
AUTO-LACP
RACK
TOR
TOR
6860
6900 VC
EXISTING NETWORK
6860
L3 OSPF/ISIS

4. INTELIGENT FABRIC Rich feature list
AUTO-MVRP
AUTO-VC (Virtual Chassis)
Automatic VLAN propagation
Automatic provisioning of Virtual Chassis and VFL ports between (up to) 6 nodes
AUTO-PREDEFINED CONFIG TEMPLATE
AUTO-LACP
iFab
Automatic download of configuration file
Automatic configuration of LACP groups and assigning ports to them
AUTO-IP ROUTING
AUTO-SPB
Automatic provisioning of IP router peering nodes
Automatic configuration of SPB network and services providing full end-users connectivity

5. INTELIGENT FABRIC Demo….starting soon!
AUTO-MVRP
AUTO-VC (Virtual Chassis)
Automatic VLAN propagation
Automatic provisioning of Virtual Chassis and VFL ports between (up to) 6 nodes
AUTO-PREDEFINED CONFIG TEMPLATE
AUTO-LACP
iFab
Automatic download of configuration file
Automatic configuration of LACP groups and assigning ports to them
AUTO-IP ROUTING
AUTO-SPB
Automatic provisioning of IP router peering nodes
Automatic configuration of SPB network and services providing full end-users connectivity

6. INTELIGENT FABRIC Demo steps1
Auto Virtual Chassis (VC) 2
Auto LinkAgg (LACP) 3
Auto SPB Network 4
Auto LinkAgg expension 5
SPB dynamic UNP SAP 6
SPB dynamic SPB Service
L2 SPB VPN
VFL
Core1
Core 1
Core2
Core 2 6
1/1/1A
2/1/1B
1/1/1B
2/1/1A
Without any human intervention, just by connecting and powering on out-of-the-box switches, the Intelligent Fabric feature will allow to automatically build a state-of-the-art network for a large campus or for a Data Center:
CORE-1 and CORE-2 switches will establish VFL (Virtual Fabric Links) and build a Virtual Chassis with the election of a master switch and a slave switch. A Virtual Chassis is a logical switch made of several physical switches. The resulting logical equipment behaves as a single switch at the management, control and forwarding planes.
Switches are smart enough to detect that they are doubly connected to each other. This triggers the building of (LACP) logical aggregated links between the CORE-1/2 on one hand and TOR or distribution switches on the other. The logical links include several physical links with the benefits of additional bandwidth, more resiliency, and no physical loops to manage.
A modern and advanced SPB based core network is then established between the switches
The TOR or distribution switches will read the VLAN id of the data flow they send to each other, configure an end-to-end SPB based L2 VPN service by mapping the edge VLAN to the SPB core service.” 2 2
1/1/47
1/1/47
TOR/Distro1 3
SPB network
TOR/Distro2 4 4
1/1/48
1/1/48
Video server (VLAN1001) 5
Video client (VLAN 1001) 5

7. INTELIGENT FABRIC Benefits
Expert time reduced
Initial deployment available for novice or non-technical person
Deployment time reduced
Due to auto-configuration of multiple protocols and features
Recommended but optional
Error –free deployment
iFab
One click to disable it
No room for human configuration or copy/paste errors
Network expansion support
Sufficient for “simple” networks
Some features available during run-time as well
Full connectivity across the network is provided

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