[c-nsp] 3750ME L2/MPLS combined scenario

[Rubens Kuhl Jr.]

We've tried that with 3750ME, and the half a million bugs and
architectural flaws made us drop that line of devices out of MPLS
altogether. Keeping the PW with L2 on 3750ME will make your customer
happier.

I don't know yet the price point and MPLS FCS for Juniper EX, but if
it's really cheaper than ME6524, it may be a good alternative.




Rubens


On Feb 1, 2008 8:43 AM, Tomas Daniska <tomas at soitron.com> wrote:
> Hi team
>
>
> does anyone run 3750MEs in combined L2/MPLS setup? We are considering
> various designs for a customer at the moment, they are rebuilding their
> MPLS network from scratch to support both L2 and L3 MPLS services.
> Having 7600/ES20 as N-PE, and 3750ME based L2 access rings, L3 services
> (IPv4, IPv6, IPv4 multicast) will be terminated at the 7600. But - for
> plain Ethernet pseudowire services at least - we are considering running
> MPLS up to the 3750MEs and providing the PW service from those boxes.
> This means running MPLS over a VLAN and terminating it on SVI, ('no
> switchport' is not possible in access as we need L2 Ethernet
> access/aggregation to transport other services to the 7600). The access
> topologies are always rings with REP based redundancy.
>
>
> I'd appreciate any real-life experience with such setup.
>
>
> thanks much
>
>
> --
>
> Tomas Daniska
> systems engineer
>
> Soitron, a.s.
> Plynarenska 5, 829 75 Bratislava, Slovakia
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