[c-nsp] 7600, Q-in-Q and VPLS

[Saku Ytti]

On (2005-10-19 07:57 +0200), Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Alexey Luckyanchikov wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to deploy such scheme:
> > 1) Tunnel customer on Cat3550 into vlan X.
> > 2) Transport vlan X via legacy L2 ethernet network to 7600.
> > 3) Deliver vlan X to 7600 via trunk with legacy network, encapsulate
> > packets into VPLS and send them via MPLS network to others locations,
> > where is a same scheme with 7600 and legacy network.
> 
> Yes, with the right linecards.
> 
> > Is this possible? I can't find clear answer on Cisco site. If answer is
> > "yes", can I use FlexWAN to connect PE (7600) and P routers in this
> > scheme?
> 
> Dunno. I know the GE-WAN can do this. All cards can do EoMPLS with 
> Sup720-3B(XL), so if you can live with point-to-point then you can do this 
> quite price-efficiently.

 If you're shopping new and you have possiblity to wait, shop SIP-600,
might be already available. Rather than 4GE OSM.
 However, AFAIK, you need to have the OSM/SIP cards on both ends,
towards your L2-network and towards your MPLS core.

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