EVC: Ethernet Virtual Circuits – Part 2

As we saw the basic of EVC in my earlier post EVC: Ethernet Virtual Circuits – Part 1 & here we will dig some more to know about EVC.

1] What is Ethernet Flow point (EPF)? : - EPF is a Service Instance which classifies frames
     belongs to particular Ethernet service & also defines & applies feature,behavior & forwarding action.

2] Ethernet Virtual Circuit (EVC): - EVC is management plane containers which represents
    globally & also do 1-toMany mapping for EVC to EPF.

3] Bridge Domain (BD): - BD is a broadcast domain local to that device.

EVC Bridge Domain: EVC bridges decouple VLAN from broadcast domain.

• VLAN are treated as encapsulation on a wire.
• VLAN on a wire are mapped to internal bridge domain.
• Result : Per – Port VLAN Significance.

Flexible Service Mapping

• Service Instance construct Layer 2 Flow on Ethernet Interface
• Single Tagged
• Double Tagged
• Header / Payload

Service Instance Mapping is specified by following command :

Encap do1q 100 : match any frame with Outer Tag equal to 100

Encap dot1q 100 sec 200 : match any frame with outer tag as 100 and second tag as 200

Encap Default : Service Instance with default encapsulation matches all frame otherwise unmatched by any other S-I on the same port.

Advance Frame Manipulation or VLAN Tag Manipulation

• PUSH Operation : Add one VLAN Tag or Two VLAN Tag
• POP Operation : Remove One VLAN Tag or Two VLAN Tag
• Translation Operation :

         1:1 VLAN Translation
         1:2 VLAN Translation
         2:1 VLAN Translation
         2:2 VLAN Translation

The Biggest advantage on EVC is to support multiple services per physical port . That means you can have multiple service under one physical port.

• Local Connect
• EoMPLS ( xconnect)
• L2 Multipoint Bridge
• L2 Multipoint Bridge ( VPLS , SVI-Based EoMPLS)
• L2 Point to multipoint bridge
• L3 Termination



EVC: Ethernet Virtual Circuits – Part 1

Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVC)

@ Support mix of Layer 2 & Layer 3 Services on same physical port.

@ Concurrent support of different flavors of Layer 2 Services i.e. Point –to- Point &

     Point-to Multipoint. ( E-Line , E-LAN, E-Tree)

@ Emerging Standard: IEEE 802.1ad, IEEE 802.1ah

@ EPF: Ethernet Flow Point i.e. Transport agnostic abstraction of an Ethernet.

@ Flexible Service Mapping


Concept & Terminology


@Three Type of EVC:


• Point –to- Point (E- LINE)

• Point-to Multipoint (E-LAN)

• Rooted Multipoint (E-TREE)

 @ Ethernet Virtual Connection or Circuit

 @ Conceptual Visualization of an Ethernet

Two Understand the EVC Building Block below terms or concept need to know:

@ Ethernet Flow Point (EFP): Transport agnostic abstraction of an Ethernet services

@ Ethernet Virtual Circuit (EVC): Local Object or container for service parameter.

@ Bridge Domain (BD): Ethernet Broadcast domain.