Any Transport over MPLS Any Transport over MPLS or AToM in short is a method of encapsulating Layer 2 packets inside MPLS. Much like it’s cousin L2TPv3 it has the ability to transport any Layer 2 encapsulating such as PPP, Ethernet etc. AToM enables Service...
Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol Version 3 It’s a standards based Layer 2 VPN / IP based protocol governed by the IETF ( RFC 3931 ) working group current version 3 as the name implies. Basically it allows you to extend ( stretching ) your LAN across the WAN much in the...
Basically Dynamic Multipoint VPN or DMVPN is a method of building dynamically secure overlay networks on top of an unsecured medium such as the Internet. There are of course Pros and Cons when it comes to building networks across the Internet. A couple of major Cons...
The overall reliability or load of an interface at a given point in time can be measured by the txload/rxload a fractional ( 255/255 = 100% ) calculation over a default average of 5 minutes. This 5 minute time interval is the default on most if not all Cisco devices,...
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