The CER has significantly more CAM and can take up to 512,000 IPv4 routes. The CES can only carry 32,000 IPv4 routes in its FIB.
-Ryan From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vladimir Litovka Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:28 AM To: Brian Stadtmiller; [email protected] Subject: Re: [f-nsp] difference between NI-CES & CER devices? Brian hi, as datasheet says, CES supports two software licenses kits: 1) ME_PREM supports rich set of Ethernet capabilities: PB, PBB, EOAM; from MPLS side only VPLS/VLL supported and subset of L3 (no BGP) 2) L3_PREM is just pure L3 switch (BASE + full L3 incl. Multi-VRF) On the other hand, CER supports everything above and full MPLS suite in ADV_SVC_PREM. Looks like they are similar in hardware, difference just in positioning, exactly like for Cisco's 6500 (switching platform) and 7600 (routing platform). Any comments on this? On 1 June 2010 04:16, Brian Stadtmiller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Good question, because I have the NI-CES-2024C-MEPREM-AC in stock which has the “metro edge prem” license on it, So is this the same as a base CER? Typically “S” is for switch aka L2 and “R” is for router aka L3 in the foundry world, But PREM is also L3 and then metro-edge prem(?), now I am getting a little confused. Here is from the price list CES portion: “The NetIron CES 2000 Series of switches is a family of 1 RU fixed form factor Layer 3 edge/aggregation switches that is purpose built for advanced Carrier Ethernet, metro edge/aggregation and high-end data center applications. These switches deliver wire-speed 24-port and 48-port 10/100/1000 Mbps or 100/1000 SFP to 10GbE aggregation in a compact, fixed-configuration 1 RU form factor. With support for upto 2 optional 10GbE ports, the NetIron CES 2000 Series of switches provide a smooth migration from Gigabit Ethernet to 10-Gigabit Ethernet. The NetIron CES 2000 series switches are MEF certified and designed to deliver an optimized set of Layer 2, IPv4 and Advanced Layer 2 services based on Provider Bridging (PB) and Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB). The NetIron CES 2000 Series switches are powered by Foundry's proven Multi-Service IronWare operating system software. The BASE software package in the NetIron CES 2000 Series comes with the classic Layer 2 capabilities, ACLs, basic Layer 3 capabilities (static routing, RIP v1/v2, VRRP, VRRP-E), QoS capabilities and management support. Upgrade packages are available for: - Layer 3 Premium software package (including OSPFv2, BGPv4, IS-IS) in addition to the capabilities in the BASE software package and - Metro Edge Premium software package (including PB, PBB, 802.1ag CFM, Ethernet Service Instance ESI framework) All units ship with a console cable and US power cord unless otherwise specified at time of order. All orders include one (1) integral power supply, manual on CD-ROM, and rack ears affixed to the unit. These switches are upgradeable with one redundant, hot-swappable power supply.” brian From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Vladimir Litovka Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 2:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [f-nsp] difference between NI-CES & CER devices? Colleagues hi looking in datasheets of NI-CES and -CER devices and see the only notable difference between them which is software capabilities - looks like CES is more oriented on L2 applications (incl. VPLS), while CER is "CES + fully functional MPLS edge". Right? Any other differences? Thank you. -- /doka /*-- http://doka-ua.blogspot.com/ --*/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2893 - Release Date: 05/31/10 06:25:00 -- /doka /*-- http://doka-ua.blogspot.com/ --*/
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