[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus as MetroE switch?

[riki]

More on this here:

http://www.six.sk/docs/trill3.pdf

On 11/01/2015 07:43 PM, Wes Smith wrote:
> Example brand and model for the TRILL switches you used?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:09 AM, Marian Ďurkovič <md at bts.sk> wrote:
> 
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've been evaluating a few platforms for a smallish MetroE-style
>>> deployment, focused on E-Line services between a number of sites, with n x
>>> 10G DWDM links between sites.
>>>
>>> What I am after is a platform that will give me a bunch (32-40 odd) 1G/10G
>>> capable SFP+ ports, no need for 40G/100G, and due to starting off smallish,
>>> probably looking more at a 1RU/2RU box rather than a chassis based solution
>>> (so no ASR9000 at this point).
>>>
>>> Cisco have just pointed to their Nexus 9000 switches however, which has me
>>> a little surprised. From looking at their website, they really look like
>>> something aimed at a more Enterprise/Data Centre role, and I can't help but
>>> get the feeling they are trying to shoehorn any product in to suit the role
>>> I'm describing.
>>>
>>> Is anybody else out there using these in such a role, or able to comment on
>>> the suitability of such a switch?
>>>
>>> Also, how do people feel about using NX-OS and VXLAN vs. IOS and IP/MPLS?
>>
>> Nowadays some other approaches are also available. For example you can use 1RU
>> TRILL switches with 48 * 10G/1G SFP+ and 6 * 40G QSFP+ ports to do exactly what
>> you're looking for - without the complexity of MPLS/VPLS or VXLAN+BGP and
>> without ugly workarounds to e.g. achieve proper load-balancing over parallel links.
>>
>> We have TRILL infrastructure in production for more than one year in the Slovak
>> internet exchange (visit www.six.sk for details) as well as in Bratislava MAN of
>> SANET.
>>
>> Since the experience is very good, further deployments will follow shortly.
>>
>>
>>    M. 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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