Which tagging mechanism is used inside the Cisco ACI fabric?

Which tagging mechanism is used inside the Cisco ACI fabric?

Which tagging mechanism is used inside the Cisco ACI fabric?

A.
NVGRE

B.
MPLE

C.
VxLAN

D.
Dot1Q

E.
STT

Explanation:
Reference: http://keepingitclassless.net/2013/11/insieme-and-cisco-aci-part-2-aci-andprogrammability/ (see the para below the figure)
NOTE: This question has two answers. Both NVGRE and VxLAN are translated by tagging
mechanism)

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The ACI fabric supports more than 64,000 dedicated tenant networks. A single fabric can support more than one million IPv4/IPv6 endpoints, more than 64,000 tenants, and more than 200,000 10G ports. The ACI fabric enables any service (physical or virtual) anywhere with no need for additional software or hardware gateways to connect between the physical and virtual services and normalizes encapsulations for Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) / VLAN / Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE).

The ACI fabric decouples the endpoint identity and associated policy from the underlying forwarding graph. It provides a distributed Layer 3 gateway that ensures optimal Layer 3 and Layer 2 forwarding. The fabric supports standard bridging and routing semantics without standard location constraints (any IP address anywhere), and removes flooding requirements for the IP control plane Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) / Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP). All traffic within the fabric is encapsulated within VXLAN.

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