On 13/04/2013, at 12:57 AM, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like mpls capability in it. Does anyone say that > mpls/vpls/l3vpn/l2vpn is good to top of rack data center level? Seems like > more flexibility and strength to me with using all those nice mpls features.
Why do you want MPLS on the top of rack switch? > I would like a pair of top-of-rack devices that can mirror one another if > possible too, like cisco's 6509-vss thing.or at least like nexus vpc > (multichassis link aggregation/bundling) > The Nexus 5Ks are pretty cheap and good if you only need L2. > What vendor has something that can do all that? Oh, I'm trying to stay > around $75K for 5 of them. Do you need 1G, or 10G interfaces, and how many of them? Why do you need 5? Would something like a pair of 5Ks and FEXs not do what you are after? > HP tells me their 5900/5920 can do most of this and mpls is on roadmap for > end of year.l3vpn, maybe l2vpn beyond that. IIRC, the HP 5900s only support 16K routes - which could be a problem on an MPLS network. Can't you just trunk the various VLANs back to a PE/ pair of PEs? > Juniper ? don't know.but I see on their web site something about QFX3500, > EX4500, EX4550 but haven't look at them yet. I think the QFX will be too expensive for your budget. IIRC, the EX4500s also have the not enough routes supported issue.... Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
