On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:24:45AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > bill fumerola wrote: > > > force10's cost advantage is chipped away at by the OP's IPv6 requirement. > > > > Yes, IPv6 and MPLS are not currently supported (and they might be or > > not, in the future) by Force-10. Pricewise that would lead to choosing > > Cisco Cat6K with or without DFCs depending on throughput requirements. > > I believe that this is half in error. IPv6 is supported, if not too > well, in recent software, but MPLS support will require a new ASIC spin > and I can't be sure when/if that will happen. IPv6 support was designed > into all of the F10 ASICs produced in the past three or four years, but > the software support was slow in arriving.
i'm half in agreement with half in error. last time i asked, on the F10 platforms that mattered there were two line cards you could buy and if you wanted IPv6 (or a realistically sized IPv4 table distributed to the line card), you needed the more expensive of the two. so, i only said it impacted the "cost advantage". any advantage in price over the 6500/7600 platform was reduced when pricing out w/ the more expensive line cards. that was for new - discount%. start looking in the used market availability of the cat6k platform (chassis, sups, line cards) v. the force10 E-series. > There is a lot I like about the F10 hardware, but the routing software > is still immature compared to other vendors and the lack of MPLS > capability makes them a non-starter when we look at hardware. MPLS wasn't a requirement for the company/at the time i inquired, but the fact that it couldn't be added w/o a forklift upgrade certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. f10 would do well to realize they're being lapped by the modern offerings of their competitors. -- bill _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
