Layer 2 handoff

In this scenario, VXLAN tunnels are terminated at the border leaf, as shown in the following figure. Depending on the interconnect technology being used between data centers extending over the WAN (such as VPLS, VXLAN Layer 2 extension, or any other interconnect scheme), the border leaf bridges the two domains through forwarding plane learning without any control plane extension.
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Layer 2 handoff-based DCI