Along with Cisco, VMware announced something called Vitrual Extensible Local Area Network or VXLAN. What is VXLAN? To me, VXLAN can be considered Layer 2.5 on the OSI stack as it combines the ...

Yes VXLAN does need testing, even though it's 'only' a Layer 2/3 technology. The benefits of VXLAN can be realized more quickly by testing often, with realistic application traffic, ...

Cisco’s claim that its Nexus 9000 leaf switches have a VXLAN routing advantage over those based on Broadcom Trident II silicon is meeting some resistance. In announcing support for the BGP EVPN ...