3 posts
A complete breakdown of all five BGP EVPN route types defined in RFC 7432 and RFC 8365 — what information each carries, when each is generated, and how they work together to build a VXLAN fabric.
A deep technical breakdown of VXLAN EVPN — what the underlay and overlay are, how VTEPs encapsulate traffic, why BGP replaced flood-and-learn, and how symmetric IRB enables Layer 3 routing across the fabric.
A look at why organizations are moving away from Cisco ACI toward NX-OS VXLAN EVPN managed by Nexus Dashboard — the operational, strategic, and market forces driving this shift in 2025 and 2026.
