[c-nsp] MPLS/IP-VPN capable cards on Cat 6500

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

I had seen a presentation where with SIP-400 and SXI you could have VPLS on the 6500.

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Tassos

masood at nexlinx.net.pk wrote on 04/06/2009 18:26:
> AFAIK VPLS is not supported on the Catalyst 6500 series. You should
> upgrade to the 7600 series with enhanced core facing interfaces, such as
> ES-cards or SIP-400/600 cards.
> 
> Regards,
> Masood
> 
>> Thanks Arie. But ES cards are not supported on Cat6500, no? And also VPLS
>> over MPLS on a SIP in Cat6500 - is it supported? If so do you know which
>> SIP?Thanks,
>> Marlon
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Arie Vayner (avayner)
>> <avayner at cisco.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Marlon,
>>>
>>> If you have DFCs on the regular LAN cards, then EoMPLS and L3VPN will be
>>> done in hardware and in distributed forwarding mode.
>>> For VPLS, you need to have either an ES20/ES40 card or a SIP card facing
>>> the core. Having this card means that again VPLS is done in hardware -
>>> some functionality is done on the regular DFCs and some on the egress
>>> core facing module.
>>>
>>> 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: Thursday, June 04, 2009 02:07
>>> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>> Subject: [c-nsp] MPLS/IP-VPN capable cards on Cat 6500
>>>
>>> Hi -Does anyone know which cards on Cat6500 support MPLS
>>> and separately IP-VPN, posibly at 40Gbps throughput? I'm looking for a
>>> distributed (DFC) forwarding solution?
>>>
>>> I know that Cat6500 is very limited in VPLS support, but IP-VPN and
>>> EoMPLS
>>> should be no problem, right?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Marlon
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