Cisco LISP Optimized Software Defined Networks

In this session, Cisco explores the advanced functionality and the optimized behavior achieved in network fabrics that make use of LISP as their overlay control plane protocol. They make the case for why a demand protocol such as LISP is the optimal choice for the overlay control protocol in a Software Defined Network. Cisco also discusses the ways in which LISP simplifies and optimizes mobility, scale, convergence and routing policy. They contrast these optimizations with the observed behavior for traditional protocol choices such as BGP. They then will dive into how LISP provides all functionality required in a network fabric in a single stack using a common object model for traditional services such as VPNs (L2 and L3) and Multicast, they then explore the unprecedented functionality that can be enabled in the same consolidated stack: contextual policies for security and routing, distributed NAT, service chains, traffic engineering, and application specific routing.