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Leaf-Spine IP Fabric

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Leaf-Spine IP Fabric?

A Leaf-Spine IP Fabric is a data center network topology designed for high bandwidth, low latency, and scalability. Leaf switches connect to servers, and spine switches interconnect all leaf switches. This design avoids traditional hierarchical layers, providing predictable performance and simplified management, especially for east-west traffic common in modern data centers.

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What other technologies are related to Leaf-Spine IP Fabric?

Leaf-Spine IP Fabric Competitor Technologies

Arista Switching platforms

Arista switches are a direct competitor to Cisco in the data center switching market and offer platforms for building Leaf-Spine architectures.

mentioned alongside Leaf-Spine IP Fabric in 70% (62) of relevant job posts

Arista EOS is the operating system used on Arista switches, making it a competitor to Cisco's NX-OS, IOS-XE, and IOS-XR in Leaf-Spine deployments.

mentioned alongside Leaf-Spine IP Fabric in 9% (64) of relevant job posts

Leaf-Spine IP Fabric Complementary Technologies

Nexus 9000 Series Data Centre Switching Platform

Cisco Nexus 9000 switches are commonly used as part of a Leaf-Spine IP Fabric architecture, especially when VXLAN is used as an overlay.

mentioned alongside Leaf-Spine IP Fabric in 87% (67) of relevant job posts

Cisco Switching & Routing Platforms

Cisco switching and routing platforms can be used to build Leaf-Spine fabrics.

mentioned alongside Leaf-Spine IP Fabric in 83% (68) of relevant job posts

Multiprotocol BGP (MPBGP) is often used as the control plane protocol in a Leaf-Spine fabric, particularly for VXLAN EVPN deployments.

mentioned alongside Leaf-Spine IP Fabric in 18% (68) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Leaf-Spine IP Fabric?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Leaf-Spine IP Fabric

Orgs mentioning Leaf-Spine IP Fabric

Engineer

0% (80) job posts

1 organizations

Network Engineer

0% (54) job posts

23 organizations

Technical Designer

0% (8) job posts

2 organizations

Network Operations Engineer

0% (6) job posts

1 organizations

Data Center Engineer

0% (3) job posts

1 organizations

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