Integrate different DC technology over VXLAN

[James Lasky]

Dear all,

do you have any suggestion where I can find useful information over www in order to provide DC interconnection of my two merging customers where one is running MPLS/VPLS with Juniper technology and the other one EVPN/VXLAN with Cisco ?

The customer would like to explore the possibility to use VXLAN to extend L2...

Also any recommendation/hint/experience can be shared is appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help

Cheers

James

[Sergiu.Daniluk]

Hi @James Lasky 

Because the VXLAN implementation in Juniper is different from the one on Cisco switches (symmetric vs asymmetric IRB), the two cannot be interconnected, and use vxlan tunnels from one vendor to another. You could try to use MPLS LDP as interconnect, but I am not sure if Juniper can do this handoff. You should look at each vendor what solutions they have, and see if there are common ones:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/evpn-vxlan/topics/concept/vxlan-evpn-integration-overview.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/93x/vxlan/configuration/guide/b-cisco-nexus-9000-series-nx-os-vxlan-configuration-guide-93x/b-cisco-nexus-9000-series-nx-os-vxlan-configuration-guide-93x_chapter_011011.html

Stay safe,

Sergiu