Origin → edge fan-out
CDN customers fan content from a single origin at THG1 out to edge cabinets at AM7, Nikhef and the Greenhouse cluster — one EVPN, no metro carrier in between.
[ BareFABRIC · Metro ]
Private VLANs across the Dutch metro. Included.
Layer-2 EVPN and VPLS between any two BareFABRIC Ports. Up to 128 VLANs per port. Provisioned from the portal in minutes — included on every port from the moment it lights, with no separate metro circuit to procure.
- Tech
- L2 EVPN / VPLS
- VLANs / port
- 0
- MTU
- Jumbo 9000
- Cost
- Free per port
[ What it is ]
Stitch a Layer-2 segment between any two ports.
BareFABRIC Metro lets you stitch a Layer-2 segment between any two BareFABRIC Ports — your cabinet at THG1 to your origin at AM7, your DR pair across South Holland, your test fabric across all 14 facilities.
It is not a separately billed product. It is included on every port from the moment it lights. EVCs are configured in the portal: select port-A, select port-B, name the EVC, choose the VLAN ID, commit. The Arista underlay reconciles and traffic flows.
Up to 128 VLANs per port in v1. Jumbo frames default. Multipoint EVPN supported for hub-and-spoke or full-mesh.
Deployment patterns running on the fabric today.
Four common topologies. The portal supports all of them with the same EVC primitive.
DR pair, region-locked
Active rack at THG1, warm standby at a paired metro facility. Same VLAN, same MAC table, sub-second failover paths.
Private peering across the metro
Bilateral L2 with another fabric tenant at a different site. No public IX, no announcements — a dedicated private circuit, well suited to B2B settlement-free arrangements.
Test fabrics
Provision a research VLAN across all 14 facilities for an afternoon, then tear it down. Carries no incremental cost because BareFABRIC Metro is included on every port.
[ Configure ]
Configure an EVC. The portal does the rest.
Pick your two ports, your VLAN, your MTU. The control loop pushes the config to both Arista switches, verifies the path, and reports back when traffic flows.
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