[c-nsp] MPLS Hardware Support

[Church, Charles]

Is there any crypto requirement?  Half the customers I deal with usually
assume IPSec when mentioning 'VPN', which is nice since all those
routers you mentioned support it in hardware, even the 1841.  Plus I
believe that in 12.4, you can perform most QoS functions on the traffic
you're encrypting.  Might not need MPLS, or at least maybe not tagging,
but rather just separate VRFs.

Chuck 

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Hi folks...

I have been scanning the Cisco feature navigator this morning to figure
out what levels of hardware support MPLS - it's on our roadmap for this
year and going to happen sooner than later...

When using the feature navigator it states that Cisco 2821, 3825, 3845
series supports MPLS and IPV6 (another consideration in this process).
Is this true and is there anything in the MPLS family that these routers
don't support?

My reason for asking is that we're working with a customer right now
that wants a private VPN between several locations plus public Internet
access - MPLS would work nice for this requirement and with VOIP coming
into play possible assist further... this customer already has some
1811's (which we would replace it needed) and 2821's which all come back
to 6500 and 7206's on our side....

Thoughts? ;)

Thanks very much,

Paul
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