On Wednesday 30 January 2008 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Nexus 7000 Series seem to be targeted to the same > segment space As the Extreme boxes, Not quite service > provider but they should do Well on the Metro Ethernet > service delivery as Edge boxes given that They don’t > support MPLS.
As edge boxes that don't need MPLS-based services, they would work, but with the added expense of an Enterprise license, which would provide support for IP routing (base license doesn't support this). I wonder why vendors do funny things like this... For service providers who need MPLS at the edge, one may trunk the port to a Layer 3 device, upstream, which makes the 7010 "a very expensive" switch. In this case, a Cisco 7609-S or the Juniper MX-960 still looks more attractive - but then again, Cisco don't expect the 7010 to compete against their legacy Metro-E platforms, or competitors' brands in the same class, for that matter. Mark.
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