Hi Gavin - The 5548/5596 fits that physical requirement, but those have a limited feature set with no actual E-line features.
In small PoPs we¹ve used those as simple 1/10G layer2 aggregation switches fronted by PEs with E-line features, like ME3600s. One big caveat in that setup: the N5ks consider MPLS-tagged traffic to be ³non-IP², for which the only etherchannel hashing is ³src-dst-mac². So one link in a 4x10G etherchannel can get slammed while the others are idle. We worked around by creating multiple(/parallel) layer3 peerings between some devices and manually setting the MAC address on the SVIs to influence the hashing decision. Annoying. Hope that helps. Mark On 10/14/15, 5:52 PM, "cisco-nsp on behalf of Gavin McBride" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Hello all, > >I've been evaluating a few platforms for a smallish MetroE-style >deployment, focused on E-Line services between a number of sites, with n x >10G DWDM links between sites. > >Looked at the usual suspects e.g. Cisco ME3600X/ME3800X, ASR920, as well >as >Juniper EX4550 and QFX5100. > >What I am after is a platform that will give me a bunch (32-40 odd) 1G/10G >capable SFP+ ports, no need for 40G/100G, and due to starting off >smallish, >probably looking more at a 1RU/2RU box rather than a chassis based >solution >(so no ASR9000 at this point). > >Cisco have just pointed to their Nexus 9000 switches however, which has me >a little surprised. From looking at their website, they really look like >something aimed at a more Enterprise/Data Centre role, and I can't help >but >get the feeling they are trying to shoehorn any product in to suit the >role >I'm describing. > >Is anybody else out there using these in such a role, or able to comment >on >the suitability of such a switch? > >Also, how do people feel about using NX-OS and VXLAN vs. IOS and IP/MPLS? > >Thanks in advance. >_______________________________________________ >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/
