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6. VXLAN Fabric Topology Designs

Rene Cardona1  
(1)
California, CA, USA
 

You understand how VXLAN BGP EVPN works and how to configure all its major features. Let’s now explore available deployment designs. Each design is deployed to serve a specific operational mode in your VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric. When you reviewed the traditional three-tier architecture, you had the core layer, the distribution or aggregation layer, and finally, the access layer. From an L3 routing standpoint, the core layer performs this function.

In a VXLAN spine-and-leaf architecture, the ...

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