Thanks to all so far who have responded. ASR9000 would be great, but it doesn't compete on price with a 6504 - and we currently don't need to extra performance. It is an Ethernet campus installation. Sorry I wasn't clearer about that.
The issue I have is that I need to bring the price down on the edge. The current design has a pair of 4500s acting as CEs connected to 6500s in the core. Additional L2 access switches hang off the two CEs. The problem is that once you start trying to peer 20 vrfs (802.1q) across these links you end up with a lot of sub interfaces, and an extremely complicated CE configuration. This is of course not to mention the HSRP and STP mess that results on top of this... Ideally I would move to a pair of 6504s (VSS) as PE/CEs, bring MPLS right to the edge and terminate the SVIs directly on these boxes. The L2 access switches - 4510s would then hang per port channel off the 6504s... I am also considering suggesting using a single 6500, but the customer was extremely keen on redundant boxes. Thanks for any suggestions... Andrew _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
