Is MPLS DEAD?!? w/ Keith Barker and Jason Gooley | CCNA CCNP CCIE

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NetworkChuck interviews Keith Barker and Jason Gooley ahead of their joint Cisco Live session in San Diego in June. Keith says he has done networking since about 1985, earned his CCIE in Routing and Switching in 2001 and in Security in 2003, and loves teaching. Jason says he has been in IT for a little over 20 years, earned his CCIE in Routing and Switching in 2013 and in Service Provider in 2015, and paused a CCDE pursuit after having kids. Their session is described as BRKCRT-2601, a 2000-level intermediate breakout on VRF, MPLS and Multiprotocol BGP fundamentals, scheduled for Thursday, June 13th at 1:00 p.m. On the title question, Jason describes MPLS at a high level as a segmentation mechanism also used for security to keep traffic separate. He says claims that MPLS is dying because of Software Defined Networking are only partly true: MPLS was traditionally expensive, but SD-WAN can run on top of MPLS and customers can offset MPLS costs with commodity internet links and tunneling. He adds MPLS remains on many certifications and is relevant for CCNA, CCNP and CCIE candidates and for production and lab use.

Key takeaways

Keith Barker: networking since about 1985, CCIE Routing and Switching in 2001 and Security in 2003
Jason Gooley: CCIE Routing and Switching in 2013 and Service Provider in 2015, with a CCDE pursuit paused after having kids
Their Cisco Live breakout is BRKCRT-2601, a 2000-level intermediate session on VRF, MPLS and Multiprotocol BGP fundamentals
MPLS is presented as a segmentation and security mechanism for keeping different traffic separate
SD-WAN does not simply replace MPLS — it can run on top of MPLS, and commodity internet links can be used alongside it to offset cost

Episode details: published May 10, 2019 · 17:01 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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