As you get more and more into Cisco Data Center terminology you come across the term DCI. \u00a0DCI is a Data Center Interconnect. DCI’s typically come in 3 categories.<\/p>\n
Dark Fiber (CWDM\/DWDM)
\nMPLS Layer 2 VPN (VPWS\/VPLS)
\nMPLS Layer 3 VPN<\/p>\n
A DCI is basically a LAN extension over one of the above methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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