> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote:
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> 
> 
> On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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>> 
>> It’s only more expensive the more big vendor products you use.  Sometimes 
>> you need to (i.e.: Boxes with big RIB/FIBs for DFZ, or deep buffers), but 
>> more and more, people are looking to OCP/White Box Switches [1][2].
> 
> It doesn't sound like the OP needs massive FIB space, so he could implement 
> FIB filtering and run the smaller boxes that have all the features but lack 
> the FIB real estate of the larger routers/switches.
> 
> This is what we do for our Metro-E Access networks.
> 
> Mark.

Likely not at the PE, true, but he did say Internet access, so I err’d on the 
side of assuming DFZ, somewhere.  If that assumption is true, FIB resources for 
the SP interconnect nodes and filtering towards the PEs, absolutely.

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