> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > > On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > >> >> 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.
