I don't think any American continental-scale ASes out there with POPs on
both coasts, central locations (Chicago, KC, etc) are running on Vyatta.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ehhhh....
>
> I am aware of quite a few networks that are large (continental,
> transcontinental) that run just fine without MPLS. I also just read about a
> very interesting large scale (500,000 node) SPB + SDN deployment that was
> very cool.
>
> "The Data center" , often with hundreds of thousands of nodes also seems
> "to work okay" without MPLS (although vxlan is an  atrocity).
> On Feb 6, 2016 6:10 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't understand why anybody would buy a 'router' (whether vyatta/x86
>> based or not) that has FIB/TCAM space for full routes, but isn't capable of
>> MPLS...
>>
>> MPLS in its various forms is invaluable for traffic engineering. Even
>> basic stuff like creating a cross connect from a VLAN containing a few open
>> wifi APs at site A, for example a coffee shop in a big MDU, to your
>> firewall/captive portal (pfsense, whatever) in a datacenter at site B.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Brocades offering is basically vyatta with some upgrades / tweaks and a
>>> massive performance increase with DPDK. Add in a few Chelsio T5 10Gbps or
>>> 40Gbps ports and it might be a hell of a platform, as long as you don't
>>> need mpls. Juniper vMX does has mpls/vpls support.
>>> On Feb 6, 2016 10:24 AM, "Josh Baird" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I looked at vMX months ago.  It was far from 'production-ready' in my
>>>> opinion, although I think it's finally starting to mature a little bit.
>>>> Lack of hypervisor options (no ESX at the time), crappy documentation, and
>>>> a general lack of knowledge on the product it's self from Juniper made me
>>>> quickly change my mind.  The seems to be the general consensus with the
>>>> community as well.  Cisco's CSR seems to be a much more mature product at
>>>> this point.  I don't know anything about Brocade's offering.
>>>>
>>>> For what it's worth, we went with MX104 instead.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I may be looking at some juniper vMX and Brocade vrouter for other
>>>>> projects in the near future for low/intermediate routing (10+ Gbps). Both
>>>>> use Intel DPDK, similar CLI.
>>>>> Most of us aren't buying MX960s.  ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]>
>>>>> *To: *[email protected]
>>>>> *Sent: *Saturday, February 6, 2016 9:43:16 AM
>>>>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] 10G router(s) with redundancy?
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree, but that can get very expensive.
>>>>> On Feb 6, 2016 9:42 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The best form of redundancy is two separate units with no dependency
>>>>>> on each other.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>> *From: *"TJ Trout" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> *To: *[email protected]
>>>>>> *Sent: *Friday, February 5, 2016 5:38:40 PM
>>>>>> *Subject: *[AFMUG] 10G router(s) with redundancy?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are some options for 10G capable routers that won't break the
>>>>>> bank that have 3+ 10G ports? Was planning two ccr1072 with ibgp but 
>>>>>> maybe I
>>>>>> should be considering something else ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also what are some models of 10G switches (sfp+) that have 4+ ports?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>

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