[c-nsp] VPLS capable devices for two sites interconnect

[George Giannousopoulos]

Hi Adam,

> The mLACP feature is not available on cheap Cisco devices (ASR920)

I've seen a few documentation pages about mLACP on ASR920, like the
following

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr920/configuration/guide/lanswitch/lanswitch-ethernet-channel-xe-3s-asr920-book/lsw_mlacp.html#GUID-FBD980FB-D9DF-4075-B1AC-A353DDB0E0C8

Do you have any information or personal experience that it's not working as
described?

Thanks
George

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Adam Vitkovsky <Adam.Vitkovsky at gamma.co.uk>
wrote:

> > Robert Hass
> > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 10:00 PM
> >
> > Hi
> > I'm looking for Cisco devices suitable for do interconnect of two sites.
> I also
> > need redundancy at each site - so two clusters of two devices are
> required -
> > mLACP capable for CE side. I cannot use regular L2 PortChannels as we're
> > looking for pure => L3 solution.
> >
> > I know that ASR9001 will do the job. But I'm looking for something
> cheaper.
> > What you can recommend ? I need total 4 x 10GE interfaces and two
> > redundant AC power supplies.
> >
> > Maybe choice of VPLS is bad choice and I should look at VXLAN or OTV ?
> But
> > what benefits will these technologies give me above VPLS ?
> >
> Hi Robert,
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> If it's pure L3 solution you don't really need VPLS nor mLACP.
> You just need two separate links extended via PWs to other site and L3
> load-sharing.
> So ASR920 will do.
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> The mLACP feature is not available on cheap Cisco devices (ASR920)
> And Cisco supports only active/passive mLACP last time I looked.
> With load-sharing if one of the links/PWs fails, then only half of the
> traffic will be affected.
>
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