[c-nsp] MPLS hardware

[Mark Tinka]

On Friday 11 January 2008 01:14, Phil Bedard wrote:

> There are certainly alternatives for doing VPLS
> termination that are cheaper than Cisco, when you look at
> the cost of the ES20.   Foundry and Alcatel both make
> lighter weight dense "MPLS-enabled switches" that Cisco
> doesn't have a good competitor for.  The 20-port SFP
> based Foundry blade for the MLX series switches has
> hardware MPLS support and costs $15k...

Both J and F, in this class, do VPLS on both customer- and 
network-facing line cards.

Cheers,

Mark.
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