[c-nsp] Nexus 7000

[Ian Cox]

At 08:48 AM 1/29/2008 -0600, Justin Shore wrote:
>Tim Stevenson wrote:
> > At 10:18 PM 1/28/2008 -0600, mack observed:
> >> No mention of MPLS though which gives the CRS-1 a leg up on the
> >> backbone routing market.
> >
> > NO MPLS (though the h/w is capable). No immediate plans for it either.
>
>This would be a show-stopper for us in our Data Center.  We have to have
>MPLS support for MPLS VPN.

Nexus 7000 supports VRFs for IPv4 and IPv6, so you can still use VRFs 
to separate traffic between customers. You just do not have MPLS. You 
can have VRFs supported without having MPLS.


Ian

>  How else are they planning on maintaining
>VRF separation between customers across multiple chassis in a hosted
>environment?  The only other option would be to use the Nexus as a dumb
>L2 switch with a 6500 upstream for all L3VPN functionality.  I would
>imagine the Nexus would be a rather expensive dumb L2 switch.  What
>about extending the customer's VRF to a sister DC in a
>geographically-diverse location?  MPLS again.
>
>We're also talking with our upstream peers about them providing L2VPNs
>for customers to our DC.  We'd meet the providers are our fiber meet
>points with MPLS-enabled circuits.  Again, requiring some router other
>than the Nexus.
>
>Say it with me everyone, MPLS MPLS MPLS.  It's silly to build any device
>without MPLS support.
>
>Justin
>
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