Do you need multi-path Ethernet in the data center using TRILL, Shortest Path Bridging (SPB), Cisco’s FabricPath or Brocade’s VCS in order to maximize network efficiency and reduce congestion? Probably not, unless you manage a very big data center with servers and access ports running into the tens of thousands. If you have less than 5,000 access ports in your data center, you can probably avoid routing Ethernet frames and use your vendor’s multi-chassis link aggregation (MLAG) product-set to interconnect the access in an active/active design. MLAG works
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