[j-nsp] VLAN's on EX4300 with 13.2X50-D15.3

[Ben Dale]

On 20 Feb 2014, at 6:00 pm, Per Granath <per.granath at gcc.com.cy> wrote:

> For the mixed VC, the options are EX42+EX4550 or EX43+QFX.
> 
> For VC, the EX42 uses VCP-cables, while the EX43 uses QSFP-DAC-cables (assuming you do not want to waste your 10G ports).
> 
> EX42 and EX43 has the same price.
> EX4550 is somewhat cheaper than QFX.

A word of caution on the "same price" between EX42/43:

If you want to use the EX4300 for L3 (and lets face it, that's probably everyone) you'll require the Enhanced Feature License for OSPFv2/3, IGMP v1/v2, PIM, VRF-Lite, QinQ and OAM.  EX4200 includes all this in the base license.

Both still require the Advanced Feature License for BGP, ISIS and MPLS.

If you want to install the Advanced Feature License on EX4300 though, you need to buy both the EFL *and* AFL.  

All features are still available for testing without licenses, but you get the nag message every minute in syslog.

All that said, being able to VC up to 5 of these things together with a dedicated 40G between any two is pretty darn cool.

Ben