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Cisco ME 3400 Ethernet Access Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Network Configuration Examples
provider edge (UPE) switch configuration and management. You can use Cisco ME 3400 switches to
form Layer 2 VPNs so that customers at different locations can exchange information through a
service-provider network without requiring dedicated connections.
In
Figure 1-2
, Cisco ME 3400 switches are used as UPEs in customer sites connected to
customer-premises equipment (CPE) switches. The switches can tag customer traffic with the
service-provider VLAN ID on top of the customer’s IEEE 802.1Q tag. By supporting double tags, the
Cisco ME 3400 switch provides a virtual tunnel for each customer and prevents VLAN ID overlaps
between customers. In addition to data-plane separation, the Cisco ME 3400 switch can also tunnel the
customer’s control protocols. With Layer 2 protocol tunneling, the switch can encapsulate each
customer’s control-plane traffic and send it transparently across the service-provider network.
See
Chapter 13, “Configuring IEEE 802.1Q Tunneling and Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling,”
for more
information on configuring these features.
Figure 1-2
Layer 2 VPN Configuration
Multi-VRF CE Application
A VPN is a collection of sites sharing a common routing table. A customer site is connected to the
service-provider network by one or more interfaces, and the service provider associates each interface
with a VPN routing table, called a VPN routing/forwarding (VRF) table. Multiple VPN
routing/forwarding (multi-VRF) instances in customer edge (CE) devices (multi-VRF CE) allows a
service provider to support two or more VPNs with overlapping IP addresses.
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CPE
VLAN 50-120
VLAN 35-60
SP Metro core
SP VLAN 5
SP VLAN 8
UPE
UPE
UPE
UPE
VLAN 50-120
CPE
CPE
CPE
Customer
VLAN 35-60
Corp A, site 1
Corp B, site 2
Corp A, site 2
Corp B, site 3
Corp B, site 1
Customer building
UPE = Cisco ME 3400 switch
CPE
Customer
VLAN 50-120
SP VLAN 8
SP VLAN 8
SP VLAN 8
SP VLAN 8
SP VLAN 5
SP VLAN 5
Customer building
Customer building
Customer building
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