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.
We all have. If you are considering the platform and need those
features, get a hold of your partner and/or Cisco account team.
Unfortunately I can't share those details/timelines.
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.
I heard that the feature will be there.
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.
Considering it's a 3 year old platform, you are asking for a lot IMO.
The n7k wasn't really meant for what's it's doing and going to do. Oh,
the 6500 platform is 11 years old this year. But, there are other
platforms that meet your requirements.
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'm not sure I get the shame part. Which part is a shame?
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...
Any software development cycle is going to be that. As stated above,
Nexus wasn't really expecting to support service modules, MPLS other
whiz bang features initially. But, it will. So, I think they are doing
a fairly good job considering.
tv
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