Origin → edge fan-out
CDN customers distribute content from a single origin at THG1 to edge cabinets at AM7, Nikhef and the Greenhouse cluster on one EVPN, with no metro carrier in between.
[ BareFABRIC · Metro ]
Private VLANs across the Dutch metro. Included.
Layer-2 EVPN and VPLS between any two BareFABRIC Ports. 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 ten locations.
It is not a separately billed product. It is included on every port from activation. EVCs are configured in the portal: select port-A, select port-B, name the EVC, choose the VLAN ID, and commit. The Arista underlay reconciles and traffic flows.
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 and no announcements: a dedicated private circuit suited to B2B settlement-free arrangements.
Test fabrics
Provision a research VLAN across all ten locations 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 completes provisioning.
Select two ports, a VLAN, and an MTU. The control loop pushes the configuration to both Arista switches, verifies the path, and confirms when traffic flows.
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