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Behind the scenes, QFabric runs like any well-designed service provider network: a cluster of central servers provides common services (including DHCP, NFS, FTP, NTP and Syslog), BGP is used in the control plane to distribute customer prefixes (IP addresses, host/ARP routes, MAC addresses) and MPLS-like encapsulation that can attach a label stack to a L2 frame or L3 datagram is used in the forwarding plane.

The true magic of QFabric is the CLI VM, which presents the internal IP+MPLS-like network as a single switch without any OpenFlow or SDN magic. Wouldn’t it be nice to have something similar in the service provider networks?