We recently deployed our first CER in production. Our SE told us we needed a CER-RT with "Advanced Services Premium" to do both on the same box, which was a requirement.
We were steered away from the CES at the mention of full BGP routes and MPLS as requirements. "show ver" on our box indicates : License: RT_SCALE, ADV_SVCS_PREM We are doing several full transit peers, a few down -stream customers, full internal mesh, and 80+ non-transit peers on this box and it doesn't break a sweat. My take is Brocade has crippled the CER/CES especially base versions as they don't want to cannibalize MLXe sales. That is understandable, my concern is some of the documentation and pre-sales information was vague to confusing as to what supports what, and until you gain support access and dig into magic "system-max" options, some of the default limits out of the box are incredibly low, and might lead someone to worry the box won't do what it was purchased to do. From: foundry-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Maiman Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 5:14 PM To: Aaron Wendel Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K Nick, Matt, Aaron, You can do both BGP and MPLS on a CES with the caveat that the FIB size is smaller (as expected). To do both on the CES, you need both the Layer 4 Premium and the Metro Edge Premium software upgrade licenses installed on the same switch. The CER licensing model is different. Cheers, Jon (who works for Brocade)
_______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
