Three-tier architecture

Until recent years, three-tier architecture was the mainstream. Three-tier architecture was designed mainly for north-south types of traffic (traffic from the data center):

As the name suggests, this architecture consists of three main layers:

  • Access
  • Distribution
  • Core

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