An Enhanced FPC is required, this is what was throwing me off. I guess I don't know what is enhanced and what isn't, its not very clear.
I'm testing on m7i/m10i's using the non eCFEB, but I guess they are still new enough as it seems to work without it.. As this seems to work is the VPLS bandwidth capability now fully port-speed? Meaning I'm not limited to any tunnel services PIC limitations? On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Julien Goodwin <[email protected]>wrote: > The short answer is: > > http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos92/swconfig-vpns/configuring-vpls-without-a-tunnel-services-pic.html > > This is meant to just need recent-ish pic's facing the MPLS cloud. > > On 28/03/11 09:53, Chris Evans wrote: > > All the communication that we've received from Juniper is that they > perceive > > MPLS and VPLS to be their answer to Cisco's OTV. I've been researching > VPLS > > on the Juniper platforms and I cannot find any definite information as to > > how much it can scale performance/bandwidth wise. VPLS requires either a > VT > > interface or a LSI interface on that hardware. The VT interfaces can only > be > > obtained by hardware that can do tunnel services, and the LSI interface > is > > only on the MX platforms from what I can read. > > > > As tunnel PICs have limited performance and LSI interfaces 'steal' > physical > > 10Gig interfaces on the 10Gig MX blades (I know it won't on the GigE > blades) > > how does Juniper expect to be able to provide high bandwidth VPLS while > > still providing high port density? The TRIO cards have some inline > services, > > but does they offer these services? It seems like Juniper is expecting to > > throw another half baked solution out there to compete with Cisco and I'm > > not sure how they're going to scale the infrastructure. The Cisco > solution > > uses the built in ASIC hardware to do this and do not require ports to be > > stolen, etc.. It really bothers me that you have to lose interfaces > and/or > > install special hardware to do inline services, which only increases the > > cost of the platforms drastically. > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
