On 6/24/12 09:20 , Sascha Luck wrote: > James, > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 08:43:22PM +1000, James Jimenez wrote: >> I am curious with a EX4200 as to the requirements of the uplink ports >> when >> attempting to use VCT / VCCP. Juniper documentation says a 1000BaseTX SFP >> module is unable to be used however I have been told that this does in >> fact >> work and the documentation may not have caught up yet? > > the information I have is that the extended VC links must be optical. . > >> I am also curious as to the requirements of the fibre uplink ports. If we >> are purchasing carrier services does it have to be a dark fibre link >> or are >> we able to use VCT over a Carrier VPLS 1G Ethernet service (LX/LH/SX)? We >> are hoping to VCT a number of chassis over a 30km distance.
extending the control-plane of an ethernet switch over tens of kilometers is a imho a seriously bad idea. > AFAIK, VCCP uses non-standard Ethernet frames and there must not be any > L2 (and up) devices in the VC link path as these devices would drop the > VCCP frames. > > rgds, > Sascha Luck > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
