EVPN / VXLAN
One network across multiple data centers
Link two, three or more data centers as if they sit in the same local network. Servers in different racks or cities behave as one — useful for failover, replication or spreading work across sites.
The service runs on equipment we manage in-house, on top of our own network between the data centers. No middleman pressing the buttons.
What does EVPN mean for you?
EVPN is a way to extend your own network across multiple data centers as if everything were one local LAN. You hand off your traffic at one of our sites, we carry it transparently to the other site(s), and you keep full control over your IP plan, VLANs and routing. It's the modern alternative to classic L2-over-WAN: more stable, faster recovery on failures and easier to scale.
What can you build with it?
Connect two sites
A direct link between two data centers. Like having a long cable between them: your rack in one Amsterdam site and your rack in another site behave like one.
Multiple sites in one LAN
Three or more data centers that see each other as one network. Useful for spreading traffic across locations or building a failover site.
Central hub with spokes
One main site that all your other locations connect to, without spokes reaching each other directly. Think central firewall or management layer.
What's in it for you?
One network across multiple data centers
Servers in different racks or different cities see each other as if they were in the same switch. No detour over the internet, no extra firewall rules.
Strictly separated from other customers
Your traffic is logically isolated from other customers on our network. What you send across your EVPN stays yours.
Scales with you
Handoff at 1, 10, 25, 40 or 100 Gbit/s, active services up to 80 Gbit/s. Start at 1 GE and scale up later without redesigning.
Automatic recovery on failures
If a path goes down, traffic automatically reroutes over another path in our backbone. You usually don't notice, and you don't have to reconfigure anything.
EVPN/VXLAN is available at our Amsterdam core PoPs — Nikhef Amsterdam, NorthC Amsterdam, Databarn Amsterdam (extension of NorthC) and Cellnex Amsterdam — and, via cross-connects to two of those sites, also at Greenhouse Datacenters GHDC3. We don't deliver EVPN/VXLAN at IJsselstein LPK (Cellnex), due to an OTN constraint at that outside PoP.
Request a quote
Which site, which service, which capacity? Mail or call — we usually come back with a fitting proposal.