EVPN / VXLAN
One network across multiple data centres.
Connect two, three or more data centres as if they were on the same local network. Servers in different racks or cities behave as one whole — useful for failover sites, replication or spreading work across multiple sites.
What does EVPN mean for you?
EVPN is a way to extend your own network across multiple data centres, as if it were all one local network. You connect your equipment at one of our locations, we carry your traffic transparently to the other site(s), and you keep full control over IP plan, VLANs and routing. It's the modern take on classic L2-over-WAN: more stable, faster to recover from failures and better suited to growing with you.
The service runs on equipment we manage ourselves and on our own network between the data centres. No third party at the controls.
EVPN/VXLAN is available at our Amsterdam core locations — Nikhef, NorthC, Databarn (extension of NorthC) and Cellnex — and via cross-connects also in Greenhouse Datacenters GHDC3. At IJsselstein LPK (Cellnex) we don't deliver EVPN/VXLAN, due to an OTN limitation at that external PoP.
Three common topologies:
- Connecting two sites — a direct connection between two data centres, as if there were one long cable: your racks behave as one whole
- Multiple sites in one LAN — three or more data centres that see each other as one network, for traffic distribution or a failover site
- Central hub with spokes — one main location all your sites connect to, without the spokes reaching each other directly; for example a central firewall or management layer
Request a quote.
How many sites and which capacity? Email or call — we usually come back with a fitting proposal.