Cisco Catalyst 6500/6800 Locator/ID Separation Protocol: Enable IPv6 Migration, Multihoming, Virtualization, and Intelligent Scalability

The last decade has seen a twofold technology shift: rapid proliferation of mobile devices, tablets, and laptops and technology evolution in virtualization and cloud-enabled services. This has triggered unprecedented requirements for network mobility, scalability, and converged solutions, and campus networks need innovative solutions to address them. In the campus there has been an increased proliferation of devices (both IPv4 and IPv6) with trends such as bring your own device (BYOD). Similarly, IT consolidation, mergers, and acquisitions require architects and operators to revector their network designs constantly. The bandwidth requirements and scale have also been increasing, with video on demand, unified communications, and networked applications becoming more pervasive in the enterprise. Although the existing campus infrastructure might be able to partially meet the immediate requirements, a revised architecture capable of providing streamlined, consolidated, and sustainable solutions to these challenges is needed to support the full realization of these trends in campus networks.