We are starting to deploy more and more small 'micro' pops (1-15 customers typically). Often times, they 'hang' off of our larger (routed) sites and we just bridge from the larger site to the micropop.
Some of them are routed individually due to their location on our network. For these particular sites, I'm thinking of spinning up a CHR in our datacenter and using MPLS/VPLS (or something) to create 'tunnels' from the micropops back to the CHR. The CHR will handle customer authentication, DHCP, firewall, etc for all of these sites. This also keeps me from having to allocate multiple public IPv4 blocks to each of these smaller routed sites (I can allocate one block to the CHR). The 'routed' micropops currently have a mix of RB2011 and RB450G routers. Is this a good use case for something like MPLS/VPLS? Would the router(s) downstream of the CHR need to speak MPLS as well or would it be sufficient to just 'terminate' everything on the CHR?
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