[j-nsp] Using a QFX5100 without QFabric?

[Joe Freeman]

How do you handle 10G port licensing on the 5048? That gets expensive
quickly. I've got about 75 qfx's deployed as PE devices right now because
of the 5048 port licenses.

The major limitation of the qfx as a PE device is that it doesn't support
VPLS. It does however do EVPN over vxlan, which can be stitched to a vpls
instance if needed on an MX, at least according to Juniper. I've not yet
tried it.

On the very few instances where I've absolutely had to deliver a VPLS type
service, I've been able to bring L2circuits back to a 480 and stitch them
all to a bridge-domain there. Not optimal, but it works.

Joe

The qfx's do L3vpn and l2circuits nicely, with RSVP/LDP, BGP, and ISIS.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Not to change subject too much, but, In case you are wanting to extend your
> mpls cloud (I'm assuming your MX core is mpls-enabled) further out into the
> aggregation/access edge, you could go with the qfx-5100 cousin... acx5048.
> I've been pretty pleased with them.
>
> I've deployed 30 or 40 of these now in my network with as cisco asr9k core.
>
> -Aaron
>
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