[c-nsp] Juniper equivalent for Cisco Cat 6500

[Dale W. Carder]

How many CE devices are you talking about?

Easiest way to save cash is to avoid licensing costs, so move all
routing to the "core".  

Dale

Thus spake Andrew Miehs (andrew at 2sheds.de) on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:49:19PM +1000:
> Thanks to all so far who have responded.
> 
> ASR9000 would be great, but it doesn't compete on price with a 6504 - and
> we currently don't need to extra performance. It is an Ethernet campus
> installation. Sorry I wasn't clearer about that.
> 
> The issue I have is that I need to bring the price down on the edge. The
> current design has a pair of 4500s acting as CEs connected to 6500s in the
> core. Additional L2 access switches hang off the two CEs. The problem is
> that once you start trying to peer 20 vrfs (802.1q) across these links you
> end up with a lot of sub interfaces, and an extremely complicated CE
> configuration. This is of course not to mention the HSRP and STP mess that
> results on top of this...
> 
> Ideally I would move to a pair of 6504s (VSS) as PE/CEs, bring MPLS right
> to the edge and terminate the SVIs directly on these boxes. The L2 access
> switches - 4510s would then hang per port channel off the 6504s... I am
> also considering suggesting using a single 6500, but the customer was
> extremely keen on redundant boxes.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions...
> 
> Andrew
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