[c-nsp] N7k as Enterprise core MPLS P/PE

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Phil Mayers wrote:

> It probably seems odd, and that an ASR9k might be a more obvious choice, but 
> for an enterprise MPLS core router it has a few nice properties - lots of 
> 10gig, goes fast, decent OS and commonality of sparing and parts with the 
> datacentre (if you use them there).

One issue is that EoMPLS (martini tunnels, etc) support is not in NX-OS 
yet (last time I looked), and it might be a while before that support is 
there.  If you don't need EoMPLS, then this might not be an issue for you.

jms