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Accelerating VXLAN Tunneling for SDN

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Scalability concerns in VLAN have jumpstarted VXLAN, which uses overlay networks to connect local VMs. Implementing VXLAN in an SDN context introduces compatibility and performance issues.

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Scalability concerns in VLAN have jumpstarted VXLAN, which uses overlay networks to connect local VMs. Implementing VXLAN in an SDN context introduces compatibility and performance issues for network hardware, unless it’s an Ethernet-based SmartNIC.