[j-nsp] MPLS in the Access

[Per Carlson]

Sorry for the fat fingers and the resulting incomplete posting...

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 09:25, Phil Pierotti <phil.pierotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> "There are vendors who are shipping boxes today with 24x1GE and 2x10GE
> uplink, wire-rate, which
> can do VPLS and P2P Ethernet/CES, but no L3VPN.  However, you can connect
> into a L3VPN virtual
> routed interface via a P2P pseudowire.  The boxes are cheaper than
> EX4200s..."
>
> Sounds interesting , care to name vendor/model?

Dunno the price point for a EX4200, but at least Brocade (CES2000) and
Cisco (ME-36/3800X) do have smaller 1U boxes doing MPLS and L2VPN in
the "affordable range". The Cisco's do L3VPN as well, but do have a
limited FIB. Don't remember the CES2000 price, but 20kUSD (have I been
told) will buy you ME-3600X with dual DC and 10G-license (Note: list
price!!). A 3800X drains your account quite some more, but have more
FIB, queues, etc.

-- 
Pelle

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