Tag: vxlan

EVPN Introduction

EVPN is a standards-based BGP control plane to advertise MAC addresses, MAC and IP bindings and IP Prefixes. It can be used for both layer 2 services including p2p services and p2mp services and layer 3 services. First standards for EVPN defined to usage over MPLS (including SR-MPLS) data plane but it is also possible …


Underlay Design for VxLAN EVPN Networks

With the rapid evolution of SDN, industry have started to separate networks as Underlay and Overlay. An overlay is a virtual network that is built on top of an underlying network infrastructure, underlay. It is the underlying network responsibility to deliver packets across networks. Here are summary of Underlay and its characteristics; –       Physical infrastructure which …