Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) is a network encapsulation protocol created by the

IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet standard, Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster ...

in order to unify the efforts made by other initiatives like

VXLAN Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI model, OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 User Datagram Protocol, UDP datagrams, using 4789 as the defau ...

and NVGRE, with the intent to eliminate the wild growth of encapsulation protocols. Open vSwitch is an example of a software-based virtual

network switch A network switch (also called switching hub, bridging hub, Ethernet switch, and, by the IEEE, MAC bridge) is networking hardware that connects devices on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destinat ...

that supports Geneve overlay networks. It is also supported by AWS Gateway Load Balancers.

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