I've got a pair of each. The ME6524 has been a pretty good router for us so far, other than the lack of L2TP support and no GRE in hardware. Other than that it's a nice little workhorse. Our 3750MEs are also doing L3. I wish the ports were GigE though.
Justin Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: > Be aware that MPLS support in 3750ME is a mess, with lots of > limitations, unsolved issues and broken promises. 3750 is a good L3 > switch in the Ethernet+IP arena, and just that. > > On the other hand, ME6500 is a very good MPLS box. Besides doesn't > supporting VPLS (can be a member of an H-VPLS architeture, but doesn't > do VPLS) and limitations with EoMPLS requiring routerport instead of > switchport that can be designed around, it's simply a lot of routes, > labels, ACLs that can be handled with very little effort. Good > product, indeed. > > > > > Rubens > > > > On 9/17/07, Justin Shore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From reading the data sheet I think you're right. >> >> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps6580/products_data_sheet0900aecd8034fef3.html >> >> I don't see any mention of MPLS. I was thinking that most of the MEs >> had at least basic MPLS features on the uplinks across all models. I >> was actually thinking about ordering a couple. Good thing this Chris >> posed his question. >> >> Thanks for the info >> Justin >> >> >> Munroe, James (DSS/MAS) wrote: >>> The Cisco ME-3400 series do not support MPLS (RFC 2547 VPNs, EoMPLS, VPLS, >>> TE, etc...). The ME-3400 only supports Multi-VRF CE (aka VRF-Lite). They >>> do not support LDP for label exchange, and from what I've been told by the >>> PLM they never will. 12.2.40SE adds Multicast VRF (mVRF) lite support and >>> SSM if you're interested. This support was also added to the 3750ME. >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
