MPLS for the masses

EVPN/VXLAN outside the datacenter

How to create scalable campus and wan solutions with evpn/vxlan

Every year, the Itnog appointment is special. It is an opportunity to share something practical and engage in new challenges for those who want to collect them. This year, I decided to talk about the EVPN VXLAN combination in a campus and geographic context. The growing support of this technology by many vendors in different products, such as switches, routers, and now firewalls, has made this possibility real. It is now possible to create uniform solutions from the data center until access leveraging this technology.

EVPN control-plane for overlay networks

I had the opportunity to talk about datacenter during ITNOG2 thank you guys! I talked about the use EVPN as control plane for overlay networks, and how to exploit them to create distributed services between different datacenters. I also mentioned the use of EVPN type-5 with proxy-arp to reduce distribution of mac-address routes and completely eliminate layer-2, while maintaining compatibility with current clustering and HA solutions based on layer-2 but now distributed in multiple datacenters.