System information

Tunnel and Non-Tunnel Modes
Unified System Deployment
Tunnel & Non-Tunnel Modes
Advantages and Disadvantages
VLAN Forwarding L3 Tunneling
Advantage
Easier Unified Switch
Better centralized policy with
Advantage
Easier Unified Switch
configuration
Save more bandwidth in
Overlay topology
Better centralized policy with
ACL, QoS, DHCP Server, etc
Transparent to customer
network (no ‘VLAN
explosion
issue
explosion issue
Disadvantage May not use advanced
features, such as ACL, QoS,
DHCP Server, etc on the
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More complicated Unified
Switch configuration
May consume more
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