Does the Cisco SD Access Enabled APs act as VTEP

[arichakrabarti]

Reading the SD Access CVD, I am trying to figure out if the SD Access enabled APs will do the VXLAN encap/decap of the wireless traffic themselves or will it forward it to the Fabric Edge Nodes to do the VXLAN encap/decap.

If the former, can those APs act as a full fledged VTEP?

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

reading through the document you have mentioned, here is how I understand it:

Assuming a fabric mode AP (Cisco 802.11AC Wave 2 - includes Aironet 3800, 2800,
1800 Series - and Wave 1 APs ) is deployed, these do the VXLAN traffic encapsulation for wireless traffic while it moves between the wireless and the wired portions of the fabric. However, the APs are not edge nodes, so they cannot function a VTEPs.

I might be off here, but that is my understanding...

[arichakrabarti]

Thanks Georg. But to do encap and decap the AP need to be a VTEP; running VTEP tables.

Also just to do a VXLAN tunnel for the wireless traffic from the AP to the Edge switch doesn’t makes sense; it must be end to end and both the encap-ing  and decap-ing device need to be a VTEP. 

Im reading through the data sheets of the compatible APs and don’t see any mention about VXLAN.

[arichakrabarti]

Any Cisco Experts... Want to take a stab?