Layer 2 Ethernet
Point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet
One circuit between two sites, or one broadcast domain shared across several. Both are delivered from the same platform, with the same handoff options.
E-Line, point to point
A transparent circuit between two ports. The simplest option and the one most customers start with, whether it carries replication traffic, a peering handoff or an internal VLAN.
TopologyTwo endpoints
TechnologyEVPL
E-LAN, any to any
One Layer 2 domain shared by every site on the service. Add a location later and it joins the existing domain without touching the other endpoints.
TopologyFull mesh
TechnologyEVPN or VPLS
E-Tree, hub and spoke
Spokes talk to the hub but not to each other. The usual choice when you are aggregating customer or branch traffic into a single core site.
TopologyRooted multipoint
TechnologyEVPN
Applications
Typical builds
- Remote peering: reach AMS-IX, DE-CIX or LONAP from a rack in another city, without taking space there
- Multi-site data centre interconnect with storage replication between three or more facilities
- Branch and POP aggregation into a single core router
- Cloud on-ramps, handing traffic to a provider present in one of our facilities
- Carrier handoff, where you deliver customer traffic to us in one metro and collect it in another
Specification
Technical detail
| Speeds | 1G to 100G per endpoint, rates can differ per site |
| Encapsulation | Dot1Q or QinQ, transparent tag handling |
| MTU | Up to 9000 bytes |
| MAC learning | Per service instance, limits configurable |
| Protection | Available on paths with diversity |
| Footprint | Any combination of our eight European metros |
Describe the topology and we will build it
List the sites, the speed at each and whether the spokes need to see one another. That is enough for a design and a price.