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

[Matt Liotta]

sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>>    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).
>
>   
Doesn't the new Cisco ME 4924-10GE do MPLS?

-Matt