With overlays, the outer (encapsulating) header includes ... devices to map a frame to the appropriate egress (decapsulating) device. Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) virtualizes the network by ...

An ethertype was specifically introduced that used a particular header as a part of the layer 2 Ethernet frame is called Cisco ... on virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN). Cisco silicons and application ...

It supports compression of Ethernet, VXLAN, EoMPLS, MPLS, PPPoE, PPP, GRE, GTP-U, IPv6, IPv4, UDP, RTP and TCP headers. The implementation is highly modular and extendable to support other ...