Your SDN Overlay Protocol Cheat Sheet

#SDN There's a lot going on in networking these days…

One of our product development senior architects put this together for an introductory presentation on SDN. It's a great list of existing and nascent overlay protocols including encapsulation overhead, bridge and transport types, as well as links to the specifications.

	Std	Std Link	Spec # of pages	Complexity	Bridge Type	Transport	Encap Overhead in Bytes
QinQ	802.1ad	IEEE	15	Low	L2	L2
PBB	802.1ah	IEEE	30	Medium	L2	L2
SPB	802.1aq	IEEE ($5.00)	340	High	L2	L2	22
Edge Virtual Bridge	802.1Qbg	IEEE ($5.00)	191	High
VNTag	802.1BR	IEEE ($5.00)	135		L2
TRILL	RFC 6325-7	IETF	150	High			20
LISP	IETF Draft	IETF	98	High	L2, L3	UDP
OTV	IETF Draft	IETF	27	Medium	L2	UDP
MPLS	RFC 3031-2	IETF	62		L2	L2
VPLS	RFC 4761-2	IETF	29	Low	L2	L2+MPLS
OpenFlow	ONF Draft	ONF	106	High	L2	L2
vCDNI	None	VMware	0	Low	L2	L2
VXLAN	IETF Draft	IETF	20	Low	L2	UDP	50
NVGRE	IETF Draft	IETF	19	Low	L2	IP	42
STT	IETF Draft	IETF	20	Low	L2	Fake TCP