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My Current IWAN Analogies
Posted on April 12, 2016 by Denise "Fish" Fishburne * 0 Comments
use analogies. Just how my brain works.... and how | sometimes learn and teach.
Token-ring source-route bridging analogy was “breadcrumbs thru the network",
Analogy for DLSw+ was a boat getting the breadcrumbs over water between 2 islands.
| think I ike analogies cause..... to be superbly honest... when I came to work at Cisco back in 1996 | only
knew SNA. | did NOT know IP. | was q
acronyms to explain other acronyms you don't understand? Don't get me started!
ly immersed into learning IP. But | mean seriously... using
Ready to play? Yea yea... my brain jumps around with varying analogies. If one doesn't hit ya maybe the
next will. @ Happy nerding!
Waze on Steroids
Dp Imagine you own a rental car agency with 2 locations across town from each other. Your
VV Ey 229 omPlovers are constantly crving the cars back and forth between the two locations to
balance out inventory.
Ifthe employees hit issues during the drive (potholes, glass, mud, sand, dirt, major traffic, construction) this
is going to cost your company.So you can see how knowing what is going on via the varying paths between your locations is critical to your
business. Knowing not just that there /s an alternate path between the 2 locations, but also knowing what
the exact path (including the lane you'd be in) is like on that road
Then... making an intelligent decision based on that information prior to each trip.
Dad’s “IWAN” Definition
Gotta say that my Dad is probably my #1 biggest fan of my web page. So one day while we
were visiting and having dinner together he asks what “IWAN stands for. He said he knew
that the WAN part was wide area networking and what that meant. But what was the
part?
| paused and thought for a moment how best to explain it.... when suddenly | heard my Dad asks “does it
stand for ‘Intermittent’?”
ROFL! | started laughing so hard | couldn't answer the question.
IWAN is Intelligent Wide Area Networking to help you with your already existing Intermittent Wide Area
Networking. @
The Car Analogy — Road, Tires, Engine
The Road - this is your physical path, Your current routing and forward between your two end points
The Tires — this is the DMVPN.
The Engine - this is the Intelligent Path Control
So... here's the question. When you have “problems” on the road... is it typically the fault of your tires or of
your engine? Oris it typically something else entirely?
Yup... you know it! The person behind the wheel. The steering. Which for us means the underlying
routing... NOT the DMVPN or the PIRv3.Filed Under: WAN
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