EVPN MPLS Service Types Illustrated

EVPN VLAN-Based Service

With this service interface, an EVPN instance consists of only a single broadcast domain (e.g., a single VLAN).  Therefore, there is a one-to-one mapping between a VID on this interface and a MAC-VRF. Since a MAC-VRF corresponds to a single VLAN, it consists of a single bridge table corresponding to that VLAN.

EVPN VLAN-Based Service
EVPN VLAN-Based Service

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EVPN VLAN Bundle Service

With this service interface, an EVPN instance corresponds to multiple broadcast domains (e.g., multiple VLANs); however, only a single bridge table is maintained per MAC-VRF, which means multiple VLANs share the same bridge table.  This implies that MAC addresses MUST be unique across all VLANs for that EVI in order for this service to work.

EVPN VLAN Bundle Service
EVPN VLAN Bundle Service

EVPN Port-Based Service

This service interface is a special case of the VLAN bundle service interface, where all of the VLANs on the port are part of the same service and map to the same bundle.

EVPN Port-Based Service
EVPN Port-Based Service

EVPN VLAN-Aware Bundle Service

With this service interface, an EVPN instance consists of multiple broadcast domains (e.g., multiple VLANs) with each VLAN having its own bridge table — i.e., multiple bridge tables (one per VLAN) are maintained by a single MAC-VRF corresponding to the EVPN instance.

EVPN VLAN-Aware Bundle Service
EVPN VLAN-Aware Bundle Service

EVPN Port-Based VLAN-Aware Bundle Service

This service interface is a special case of the VLAN-aware bundle service interface, where all of the VLANs on the port are part of the same service and are mapped to a single bundle but without any VID translation.

EVPN VLAN-Aware Bundle Service
EVPN VLAN-Aware Bundle Service

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