[c-nsp] 10 gig links, small boxes needed

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

>    I need to light up dark fiber between three locations with 10 gig 
> links between them and site to site transport has to be MPLS /w traffic 
> engineering. The customer does not want to pay for a redundant carrier 
> grade box(!). I'm looking at Cisco's Metro Ethernet line and puzzling 
> over which best fits this bill. There will be a handful of gigabit hand 
> offs happening at each of the three locations.

Given that you explicitly need MPLS and TE, something like a 7604 is
probably about the smallest you can get (5U).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no