The Benefits of Building Networks With Shortest Path Bridging

Shortest Path Bridging or SPB was ratified in March of 2012 by the IEEE.  Its an active-active link protocol that replaces the older Spanning Tree Protocols.  SPB is touted as a means to simplify the creation and configuration of carrier, enterprise and cloud networks by virtually eliminating human configuration error.  In short, SPB is designed to scale. Avaya, an SPB leader, has implemented it within its data center and campus networking products in a hope to drastically simply the configuration of enterprise wide virtual networks.  Paul Unbehagen an SPB co-author and Avaya Director working on next generation fabric standards and implementations joins me to discuss SPB and the value it brings to enterprise and data center network design.