The final critical Cisco technology required for Rainpole.com’s implementation is LISP. The Cisco LISP mechanism performs traffic route optimization after the long distance vSphere vMotion event has occurred, so that application traffic coming from end users, outside the data center, does not transverse the original source data center, but instead reaches the application virtual machine directly. Detailed coverage of LISP is beyond the scope of this document, but in this type of design scenario, Cisco LISP provides key benefits to applications, including lower latency and faster application response times.