VXLAN EVPN on Next-Generation Switches: Modern Data Center Network Architecture

Authors

  • Sasikumar Sadayan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4232

Keywords:

VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, Network Virtualization, Data Center Fabric, Multi-tenancy

Abstract

Digital extensible LAN generation mixed with ethernet vpn to manipulate aircraft has emerged as a transformative solution for cutting-edge data center networking challenges, addressing the fundamental boundaries of traditional layer 2 switching in virtualized and multi-tenant environments. The exponential growth of cloud computing and the acceleration of multicloud adoption styles have created extraordinary needs for scalable community virtualization technology that may support vast community segmentation, even as it maintains gold standard performance characteristics. Vxlan EVPN leverages BGP as an advanced manipulation plane mechanism, enabling distributed knowledge of and marketing of endpoint information throughout fabric architectures without requiring centralized management factors or flood-and-learn mechanisms that plague conventional bridging protocols. The technology presents considerable expansion in community identifier capability through its improved addressing scheme, representing a sizeable development past the limitations of conventional VLAN implementations. Superior implementations make use of hardware-based encapsulation and decapsulation abilities in modern switching platforms, making sure that overlay networking functionality does not compromise forwarding performance, even as it allows obvious layer 2 connectivity throughout the infrastructure. The dispensed nature of EVPN manages plane operations gives inherent redundancy and scalability via general BGP mechanisms, with sophisticated commercial course techniques that optimize convergence conduct in large-scale deployments. Integration of routing and bridging capability through distributed anycast gateway configurations permits the most desirable forwarding paths for inter-subnet communication while keeping the operational advantages of dispersed routing architectures, which could scale horizontally throughout multiple physical locations.

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Published

2025-11-04

How to Cite

Sasikumar Sadayan. (2025). VXLAN EVPN on Next-Generation Switches: Modern Data Center Network Architecture. International Journal of Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4232

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Research Article