[f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K

[David Unfried]

We recently deployed our first CER in production. Our SE told us we needed a
CER-RT with "Advanced Services Premium" to do both on the same box, which
was a requirement. 

We were steered away from the CES at the mention of full BGP routes and MPLS
as requirements.

 

"show ver" on our box indicates : License: RT_SCALE, ADV_SVCS_PREM

 

We are doing several full transit peers, a few down -stream customers, full
internal mesh, and 80+ non-transit peers on this box and it doesn't break a
sweat.

 

My take is Brocade has crippled the CER/CES especially base versions as they
don't want to cannibalize MLXe sales.  That is understandable, my concern is
some of the documentation and pre-sales information was vague to confusing
as to what supports what, and until you gain support access and dig into
magic "system-max" options, some of the default limits out of the box are
incredibly low, and might lead someone to worry the box won't do what it was
purchased to do.

 

 

 

From: foundry-nsp [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Jon Maiman
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 5:14 PM
To: Aaron Wendel
Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K

 

Nick, Matt, Aaron,

You can do both BGP and MPLS on a CES with the caveat that the FIB size is
smaller (as expected). To do both on the CES, you need both the Layer 4
Premium and the Metro Edge Premium software upgrade licenses installed on
the same switch. The CER licensing model is different.

Cheers,

Jon (who works for Brocade)



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