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Datacenter WAN Layer Design and Redundancy

So i m task on redesigning our datacenter and im really confused since i know standard networking doesn't necessarily apply to datacenter setup. Our traffic is mostly North South and I have a collapse core design for the redesign.

Datacenter WAN Layer Design and Redundancy

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So i m task on redesigning our datacenter and im really confused since i know standard networking doesn't necessarily apply to datacenter setup.

Our traffic is mostly North South and I have a collapse core design for the redesign.

On the WAN Layer im confused if my design is correct or not or is even possible or standard.

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So i m task on redesigning our datacenter and im really confused since i know standard networking doesn't necessarily apply to datacenter setup. Our traffic is mostly North South and I have a collapse core design for the redesign. On the WAN Layer im confused if my design is correct or not or is even possible or standard.

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  • Also im having a hard time what would the setup be in the WAN switch if this is plausible.

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Setup: 2 ISP with 2 /29 public IP blocks each. Cross connect ISP to the 2 WAN switch totally just L2.

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