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Title: VXLAN Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:vxlan URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXLAN Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 UDP datagrams, using 4789 as the default IANA-assigned destination UDP port number, although many implementations that predate the IANA assignment use port 8472. VXLAN attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. VXLAN endpoints, which terminate VXLAN tunnels and may be either virtual or physical switch ports, are known as VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs).