Re: VPLS

On 2010-03-30 02:23, Tyson Scott wrote:
> I have to admit I find this pretty comical now. It is funny that I can go
> get a Juniper SRX100 router which is the lowest end branch router you can
> buy from Juniper, I am assuming it is comparable to the 800 series routers
> and I can get VPLS support on this but with a higher end service router like
> the 7200 series router support is not provided. Looks like a pretty big
> snafu by Cisco in my opinion. I am glad for this question as I at least
> know what I can do now to implement some testing I wanted to do for a
> customer as I am not going to be buying a 7600 any time soon, little out of
> my price range.

We can discuss this over and over again, but yes, for Cisco right
now the smallest platform we start from with regards to VPLS is
7600. While I can't discuss the roadmaps for other products, it is
pretty obvious that the ASR 1k will get VPLS support in near future.
For other platforms and deployments I'd advise to go check with
your local Cisco SE (but not the one claiming IPv6 is supported only
in software on all Cisco platforms :P ).

However, what exactly do you need VPLS for on smaller deployments?
Wouldn't transporting L3 be enough - and with that there's DMVPN and
GET VPN (or even DMVPNoGETVPN, or even MPLSoDMVPNoGETVPN if
you'd like to go that far :) ).

As far as details go for 7200 and VPLS control-plane, please
unicast me and we can discuss off line.

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