[c-nsp] 3750X?

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Anyone got any experience with Huawei's CX600?

Two smaller models (X1 and X2) are coming out and they seem promising 
enough.
http://www.huawei.com/news/view.do?id=11153&cid=42

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Tassos

Mark Tinka wrote on 18/04/2010 16:17:
> On Thursday 15 April 2010 07:54:13 pm Anton Kapela wrote:
>
>    
>> Also, cer2k has 512k v4 tcam entries, dual ac/dc,
>>   consumes 1u of space, draws under 300 watts, and
>>   actually has working bgp/vpls/etc *today* -- not
>>   "somewhere over the me3400G rainbow."
>>      
> I had a chance to beat these boxes a fair bit toward the end
> of last year, during our consideration for platforms that
> will let us extend MPLS into the Access.
>
> While they are formidable (Cisco's ME3400 is pretty useless
> for MPLS in the Access, their 3750ME lacks Gig-E + Jumbo
> frames on customer facing ports, e.t.c., Juniper's EX-series
> boxes are pretty useless in this field too, and the MX80 is
> worthy but too pricey/big), there's a number of issues that
> still need sorting out (some may, some may never).
>
> While I can't get into the specifics of these limitations
> (NDA, blah blah), you'll definitely be chasing the code for
> at least another couple of years to reach parity with the
> rest of your network.
>
> Hot on my list: IPv6 is currently not supported, but is
> roadmapped for the future (feature by feature, of course).
>
> All that said, in all honesty, if you can live with the
> limitations or workaround them, there currently isn't a
> better product in the market that offers 48-port tri-rate
> copper, fibre-based Gig-E/10-Gig-E connections with
> "acceptable" MPLS support, especially if you're considering
> just EoMPLS and VPLS. And coming from me, that's probably
> saying much :-)...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>    
>
>
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