LAN Extension Technology

[Arjun Dabol]

Hello

Can someone help me understand what is the menaing of 'LAN Extension technology' ?

does that mean ..

vpls...

AToM...

pseudowire...

OTV ?

Any one liner difference to help me understand ?

Many Thanks

[Manish Gogna]

Hi Arjun,

OTV is the LAN extension technology, you can get a good idead about it here

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/overlay-transport-virtualization-otv/index.html

HTH

Manish

[Arjun Dabol]

Thanks Manish.  Can you give a real life use case that can be achieved using OTV ( from a customer PoV who has 2 DC as separate locations hosting many servers)

That will help me to understand before I go inside technology specs of OTV :)

thanks again

[Manish Gogna]

Hi Arjun,

You can refer the following for some use cases of OTV 

http://blog.ipspace.net/2013/09/layer-2-extension-otv-use-cases.html

HTH

Manish