[c-nsp] E/MPLS enabled gear

[Graham Wooden]

I really appreciate everyone's comments and suggestions.
This device, what ever it maybe, won't see gigs of bandwidth. My main focus
is to find a device that can backhaul MPLS and do EoMPLS on 10/100 copper
ports.  However, having a few gig ports is nice as well.

There was a few suggestions about using a router and a switch.  Router's IOS
being the E/MPLS 'brains' so-to-speak, dot1q to a switch that will handle
the port density.

Could a 7206VXR with a NPE-1G trunked to a 3560 do the EoMPLS and MPLS
functions?  I know I will be limited to VLAN based EoMPLS opposed to port
based. I would just need to increate the MTU to handle the bigger frames.

The new 6500ME's look nice, but still DC powered =\ .

Thanks again everyone,

-graham


On 4/5/06 8:00 AM, "Kristofer Sigurdsson" <kristosig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> As far as I understood the original requirement, it was "something with
>> lots of GigE ports" - which sounds like "potentially very much bandwidth"
>> to me...
> 
> True, but never hurts to keep the options open.  I guess what I was
> trying to get across was that the port density and the EoMPLS
> capabilities didn't need to be in the same box...
> 
> -Kristo
> 
>