VXLAN Innovations- VXLAN EVPN Multi-Site: Part 2 of 2

  Posting this blog on behalf of Babi Seal, Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU and Lukas Krattiger, Principal Engineer, INSBU This is the second blog in a two-part series that highlights novel Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)-related features that are now shipping in the latest software release of the Nexus 9000 platform. In the previous blog, […]

A Summary of Cisco VXLAN Control Planes: Multicast, Unicast, MP-BGP EVPN

With the adoption of overlay networks as the standard deployment for multi-tenant network, Layer2 over Layer3 protocols have been the favorite among network engineers. One of the Layer2 over Layer3 (or Layer2 over UDP) protocols adopted by the industry is VXLAN. Now, as with any other overlay network protocol, its scalability is tied into how […]

MP-BGP eVPN control plane for VXLAN – SDN is growing up

We are all proud parents of our products as developers, much like our own children, we see them born, care and feed for them, watch them carefully as they are unstable during early years, we do not go out much, they become more stable over time, and then something happens – they grow up and there is a need […]

VXLAN/EVPN: Standards based Overlay with Control-Plane

Given the tremendous interest in VXLAN with MP-BGP based EVPN Control-Plane (short EVPN) at Cisco Live in Milan, I decided to write a “short” technology brief blog post on this topic. VXLAN (IETF RFC7348) has been designed to solve specific problems faced with Classical Ethernet for a few decades now. By introducing an abstraction through […]