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

[Marlon Duksa]

Brad - what about Cat6500 with SIP-600 on the networks facing ports (mpls)
and WS-X6748 on the customer facing ports?Would that work for your scenario
below - each customer has a unique vlan? SIP-600 is supported on Cat 6500
according to the docs.

I know that if want to use local significant VLANs customers then I would
need to move to EVC concept on 7600 on 12.2(33)SRB (or even A?)
Cat 6500 does not support EVC, correct?
Thanks,
Marlon

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Brad Hedlund <brhedlun at cisco.com> wrote:

> On 1/28/09 1:41 PM, "Arie Vayner (avayner)" <avayner at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > VPLS requires either SIP or ES20 cards both on customer and core facing
> > sides.
>
> It depends.  If Marlon is giving each customer their own unique VLAN (e.g.
> Cust A gets VLAN 10, Cust B gets VLAN 20, and so on.) then the customer
> facing ports can be plain 1Q trunks with no MPLS encapsulation required.
>  In
> this scenario the customer facing ports could be WS-X6748, for example.
>  And
> of course the ports with 'mpls ip' enabled forming the VPLS core must be
> SIP
> or ES20.  The VPLS 'xconnect' statements would be applied to each
> customer's
> SVI.
>
>    interface VLAN 10
>        description Customer A
>        xconnect vfi VLAN10_CUST-A
>    interface VLAN 20
>        description Customer B
>        xconnect vfi VLAN20_CUST-B
>
> 6500 can now support VPLS over GRE with SIP-400 and SXI code.  But I
> definitely agree that 7600 is better for native VPLS, and supporting
> interface speeds up to 10GE.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad Hedlund
> bhedlund at cisco.com
> http://www.internetworkexpert.org
>
>