Hello, I would agree on the "basically".
As someone pointed out before, there are some caveats / limitations between the two platforms. The way I see it : - CER : entry-level MPLS PE, - MLXe : high-level MPLS PE, My 2 cents. Y. Le 12 mai 2013 à 22:34, Matt Kassawara <[email protected]> a écrit : > The CER is basically a 1U MLX/XMR. > > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:11 PM, David Unfried <[email protected]> wrote: >> Based on my first hand observation using a CER, the CER is FPGA based >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: foundry-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Jeff McAdams >> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:24 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K >> >> FWIW, I'm pretty sure neither the CES or CER are merchant silicon. In fact, >> I'm pretty sure the forwarding plane on these guys are FPGA based. >> >> That being said, the CES does have less CAM than the CER does, sip that does >> limit scalability. Otherwise the difference is in the licensing model in >> the control plane. >> >> I'll also say, my message to vendors is consistently that software feature >> licenses are a negative mark when I'm considering gear. If Brocade/Foundry >> people are listening, please take this message back to your product >> management people. >> >> Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >On 12/05/2013 16:16, Erich Hohermuth wrote: >> >> In my opinion you either buy a cer if you need mpls layer3 or a MLX. >> >> There are alot of caveats in the configuration and you have to read >> >> the documentation really carefully cause some features are not >> compatible. >> >> The hardware is really limited in terms of routing instances (vrf). >> > >> >I don't expect a box like this to scale infinitely. It's merchant >> >silicon and this comes with reasonably well understood scaling limitations >> (e.g. >> >routing instances, port buffers, LAG hashing, etc) - that's the >> >trade-off for getting the port cost down from what you'd otherwise pay >> >for bigger iron. It's just that as it stands, the box does not compete >> >especially well with products from other vendors in terms of bang per buck. >> > >> >Nick >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >foundry-nsp mailing list >> >[email protected] >> >http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundry-nsp mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundry-nsp mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp > > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > [email protected] > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
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