[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus as MetroE switch?

[Mark Tinka]

On 3/Nov/15 15:33, Adam Vitkovsky wrote:

> VXLAN on the other hand can leverage MoFRR, IP-FRR and with BGP
> control plane also PIC Edge. And I don't think it's more complex than
> EVPN or PBB-EVPN although these can run mLDP which is certainly more
> lightweight than running multicast in the core. But once again VXLAN
> seems like locking your core into providing L2 transport services only.

And that's why we are treating VXLAN as a purely edge service, either
instantiated by us, or by our customers.

The backbone will always remain IP/MPLS, because that has stood the test
of time, and as of 2015, still appears to be the most flexible way to
run the network for both IP and non-IP services.

I recall at an SDN/NFV/MPLS/IPv6 conference in Paris back in 2013,
Kireeti Kompella was intimating about how a lot of technologies have, in
the last 7x years or so, been developed to wipe out the need for MPLS as
they could be seen as being leaner and less kludgy than MPLS. 7x years
on, MPLS still seems relevant, so it's quite interesting to watch.

Pity I can't find that video online.

Mark.