Cliff Bowles <cliff.bow...@apollo.edu> writes: > We have some aging infrastructure and need to start budgeting next-gen. > > > * The network has several small routers as individual edges to peers, > WAN, SIP services. > > * It has a couple 6509s as Internet edge (full tables, 2 carriers, no > transit, simple policies) > > * It has some Nexus 7K as an aggregation layer for all the server pods > > * It has some 6509s as a backbone to interconnect the aggregation > layers and inter-site links. > > * We do run VRFs/MPLS across our backbone with L3, L2 and L1 > services. Nothing super fancy, but it's a requirement.
You could always roll the 6509s into 6800 series stuff if you're married to Cisco for Campus style switches in your distribution network. But I really hate the Sup2T. In my admittedly limited scope, they have a pretty high failure rate. If you want something simple that still supports MPLS and VPLS, you can't really beat Brocade for port density. I getting ready to rip out 6 sets of 6509s and replace them with 16 slot MLXe chasis. And if I were in your shoes I'd be looking at either ASR9K or Juniper MX series stuff to replace the 6509s that you have on your edge. I can't speak much for the server-facing stuff on your network though. -Daniel
