[c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

[Keegan Holley]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Leigh Harrison <
lharrison at convergencegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, and yeah, I agree that a lack of IPv6 support is
> slack.  We're seeing a keen interest from various customers at the moment.
>
> Has anyone got any happy stories about the ME3600X?!??
>

You just have to know what you're buying.  I'm not sure what the point of a
metro switch is with no, vpls, no ipv6 and limited routing capabilities, but
that's just my  personal opinion.  There are a host of other vendors that
make similar gear at the same price point which supports the required
features.  Why wait for cisco?


>
> LH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Vinny_Abello at Dell.com
> Sent: 28 March 2011 22:00
> To: lists at hojmark.org; jon at bovre.no
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
>
> Back in November when I questioned our Cisco account rep while I was
> purchasing a half dozen of these, I was told ~summer of '11 for IPv6 on the
> ME3600X... I'm sure that's been pushed back based on newer feedback it seems
> people are getting. This is most unfortunate. I don't understand how Cisco
> can ignore IPv6 on newer products like this. It is indeed totally
> unacceptable and does make these L2 only having to rely on something else to
> do IPv6 in L3 the access layer. :(
>
> -Vinny
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Asbjorn Hojmark -
> Lists
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 3:36 PM
> To: 'Jon Harald Bøvre'
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools
>
> > IPv6 supported? No. Probably coming in october this year.
>
> Last I heard was 'sometime 2012' for IPv6 support -- Totally unacceptable
> for any device doing L3 in SP environments, IMO -- so I consider it a
> L2-only box.
>
> -A
>
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