[j-nsp] EVPN

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:13:41PM +0100, Matt Bernstein via juniper-nsp wrote:
> On 05/05/2015 15:48, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 05:53:54PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >>Is anyone doing EVPN in production yet?
> >I take it from the deafening silence that either no one is doing EVPN
> >in production, or no one is willing to admit it.
> You could ask me again in a few months :)
> 
> I'm looking at a 10Gb/s L2 DCI over the Internet. EVPN (I think
> MPLSoGRE pseudowires), then over IPsec, using active/active MX240
> routers in each location. Looks elegant on paper, although if our
> PoC turns up any gremlins we can fall back to boring (but obviously
> less elegant) VPLSoGREoIPsec.
> 
> I can report back here, hopefully before August, if people find it
> interesting. _I_ will be particularly interested in the encryption
> latency tax, given that without dedicated circuits latency is
> already potentially an issue.
> 
> I will also be interested to see if anything cheap can do
> low-bandwidth encrypted EVPN; this might help those few corner-cases
> where people insist on a VLAN over our L3 campus fabric. The SRX100
> can do VPLSoGREoIPsec, but again EVPN strikes me as more elegant.

Hi Matt,

Do you have any news to report on your EVPN deployment?  Did you have
to fall back to VPLS?

Thanks,
Chuck