How many CE devices are you talking about? Easiest way to save cash is to avoid licensing costs, so move all routing to the "core".
Dale Thus spake Andrew Miehs ([email protected]) on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:49:19PM +1000: > 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/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
