[c-nsp] WS-X cards on Cat6500 with VPLS

Phil Bedard philxor at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 16:21:57 EST 2009


There is a reason why it's called a 7600-ES20...they do not work with  
6500s.
You'll have to talk to your Cisco account rep about that one. :)

Phil

On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Marlon Duksa wrote:

> Got it. Thanks much. One more question. Can 7600 line cards (ES20,  
> RSPs...)
> be reused in cat6500 chassis with the proper IOS (12.2(33).SRD). In  
> other
> words can 6500 chassis be converted into 7600 and vice versa?If not,  
> do you
> know why? The chassis look exactly the same.
> Thanks,
> Marlon
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Arie Vayner (avayner)
> <avayner at cisco.com>wrote:
>
>> Marlon,
>>
>> VPLS requires either SIP or ES20 cards both on customer and core  
>> facing
>> sides.
>> The only way you could do something is to have a central VPLS  
>> solution,
>> with the spokes using point to point EoMPLS PW's.
>> You can run a VPLS domain on a single box (with ES20/SIP), while  
>> running
>> point to point to point PW's to that box.
>>
>> For ES20 and VPLS features, it is better to look at 7600 and not  
>> 6500.
>>
>> Arie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Marlon Duksa
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 20:09
>> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: [c-nsp] WS-X cards on Cat6500 with VPLS
>>
>> Hi - does anyone know if  the WS-X...GE type  cards can be used in  
>> cat
>> 6500
>> as access ports in VPLS. What we are trying to do is to have SIP-600
>> with
>> 10GE SPA to provide VPLS service on the network side (through MPLS)  
>> and
>> have
>> GE ports on the WS type cards for access. Each GE port in the  
>> access on
>> WS-X.. type cards should support multiple VLANs so that each VLAN  
>> can be
>> assigned to a differetn customer (VPLS).
>> Thanks,
>> Marlon
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