[j-nsp] Segment Routing Real World Deployment (was: VPC mc-lag)

[Mark Tinka]

On 7/Jul/18 18:03, Alexandre Guimaraes wrote:

> Yes! But... Ex4550 we have 32 ports 1/10Gb, using expansion slots, more 1/10Gb or 40Gb ports.  L2circuits, QinQ L2TP, vlan translation, rtg local-interface switching and so on...
>
> We eat 1/10Gb ports, ASR920 didn’t help us with that.

Agreed - the ASR920 lacks port density. But, it does have the features,
which come at a decent price.

Depending on how things pan out with Broadcom in the few short years to
come, I think this will be a particularly good area for Arista to pick
all their competitors off, should they come right with their IP/MPLS
software implementations.

I feel the established/traditional equipment vendors are too busy
producing half-baked Broadcom-based solutions just to have a "cheap"
option to deal with customers considering Arista or white boxes; and
focusing more on pushing their heavily-bloated "data centre" switches at
massive $$ premiums. Slowly but surely, Arista (or anyone else copying
their model) will rise to fill the gap.

Mark.