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For a data center where traffic may be going from server to server, having to send data North-South begins to be inefficient as you may have to go through a core layer. Data centers may have more East-West traffic.\\ | For a data center where traffic may be going from server to server, having to send data North-South begins to be inefficient as you may have to go through a core layer. Data centers may have more East-West traffic.\\ | ||
Spine-Leaf design is better for Data Centers.\\ | Spine-Leaf design is better for Data Centers.\\ | ||
+ | Each spine connects to every leaf and each leaf connects to every spine.\\ | ||
+ | Spines do not connect to each other. Leaves do not connect to each other.\\ | ||
+ | Traffic can easily flow east-west as at most it will only require 3 hops to reach a device on another leaf. It is also more readily scalable as to make this bigger you only need to add on more spine and leaf switches. | ||
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