The Core Pain Point: Centralized Bridging Bottlenecks The Architectural Challenge The VCF 9.1 Solution: Out-of-Path Distributed Bridging Performance & Resource Dividends The Modern Fix: VNA-Driven Distributed Bridging (dbridge) VCF 9.1 decouples Layer 2 extension services from the virtual Edge Node tier, shifting orchestration out-of-path to a containerized Virtual Network Appliance (VNA) cluster.Data Plane: Instead of…