On 03/22/2011 01:03 AM, Tony Varriale wrote:
The Nexus 7K is working on the routing side of things but lacks
features (MPLS).
I suspect that's coming very shortly. Which MPLS features are important
to you?
I've heard "very shortly" from Cisco before. Frankly, they've got no
belief credits with me. Unless and until I see it, it's vapour.
As for features - full parity with the feature set on 6500, so:
L3VPN including 6vPE
EoMPLS
FRR
Autotunnel
And although this isn't on 6500, on a newer platform I expect VPLS for
good measure.
Now, the chipset inside the N7k may be capable of a bunch of wondrous
things, but without the software it's just so much expensive fused sand.
I find it *extraordinarily* hard to believe they'll reach MPLS feature
parity with the (current) 6500 in any timescale less than 2 years.
Which is a shame, because a lot of the Nexus features look great; NX-OS
certainly seems to have a better, newer structure and both the control
and forwarding plane are a lot faster on the N7k.
I would love to be proven wrong. Maybe NX-OS is built in such a way as
to permit speedy feature development. But unless and until it's
shipping, and the bugs are ironed out...
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