[c-nsp] Nexus 7000

[Tim Donahue]

Quoting Justin Shore <justin at justinshore.com>:

> 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.  How else are they planning on maintaining
> VRF separation between customers across multiple chassis in a hosted
> environment?

[snip]

> Say it with me everyone, MPLS MPLS MPLS.  It's silly to build any device
> without MPLS support.
>

I think that you and Cisco are using different definitions of the term  
'Data Center'.  From my understanding, this product is targeted at the  
Enterprise Data Center, not for a Service Provider Data Center.

I agree that it would be silly to build a device that targets the SP  
market without MPLS, however, your average 'Enterprise' data center  
environment does not use MPLS throughout.  For a device that targets  
this market, I think it would be silly for them to waste resources  
putting a MPLS feature set into a device that would typically never  
need it.  In the Enterprise, MPLS typically exists on the network edge  
for WAN connections, not throughout the network like a Service  
Provider would require.

-- 
Tim Donahue

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