Greta manages the on-premises networks for her company's Atlanta and Orlando offices. She hears about a technology that will allow her to connect certain network segments in Atlanta to their counterparts in Orlando by inserting the MAC address into layer 4 for UDP transport over the Internet. What is the technology that she has heard about that she should research more about in order to implement?

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VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) is the technology that allows for the extension of LAN segments over an IP network by encapsulating Ethernet frames within a UDP packet. This encapsulation includes the original MAC address, enabling the connection of network segments across different geographical locations over the Internet.

Greta Manages the On-Premises Networks for Her Company's Atlanta and Orlando