Your SDN Overlay Protocol Cheat Sheet

#SDN There's a lot going on in networking these days…

One of our product development senior architects put this together for an introductory presentation on SDN. It's a great list of existing and nascent overlay protocols including encapsulation overhead, bridge and transport types, as well as links to the specifications.

 

 StdStd LinkSpec # of pagesComplexityBridge TypeTransportEncap Overhead in Bytes
QinQ802.1adIEEE15LowL2L2 
PBB802.1ahIEEE30MediumL2L2 
SPB802.1aqIEEE ($5.00)  340HighL2L222
Edge Virtual Bridge802.1QbgIEEE ($5.00)191High   
VNTag802.1BRIEEE ($5.00)135 L2  
TRILLRFC 6325-7IETF150High  20
LISPIETF DraftIETF98HighL2, L3UDP 
OTVIETF DraftIETF27MediumL2UDP 
MPLSRFC 3031-2IETF62 L2L2 
VPLSRFC 4761-2IETF29LowL2L2+MPLS 
OpenFlowONF DraftONF106HighL2L2 
vCDNINoneVMware0LowL2L2 
VXLANIETF DraftIETF20LowL2UDP50
NVGREIETF DraftIETF19LowL2IP42
STTIETF DraftIETF20LowL2Fake TCP 

       

Published Nov 28, 2012
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