[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 VPLS support

[Jason Lixfeld]

Can one not use ES ports as LAN facing interfaces or 2960 uplink interfaces in a VPLS environment?

I know they can be used as such in an EoMPLS environment with non-ES core facing interfaces.

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On 2012-01-21, at 11:24 AM, Lars Christensen <perseusdk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pavel
> 
> You should use either ES-cards or SIP-cards core facing. For access you can use any sort of interfaces, either LAN-cards or dedicated access switches such as the 2960S-series and like.
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> Lars Christensen
> CCIE #20292
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> Den 21/01/2012 kl. 16.49 skrev Pavel Dimow:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to understand what does it mean when cisco says that we
>> need es+20 card for 7600 "facing the core".
>> Does it mean that we must use 7600 as access switch in order to
>> provide VPLS to our customeers or we could use
>> for example 2960 as access with trunks to 7600?
>> I guess not, but ...
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