Mark Tinka wrote: > Not sure what gear you're using now, but you'll get full routing and > MPLS features on the platforms such as the Cisco ASR920. I'd have > recommended the Cisco ME3600X, but they just announced EoS/EoL last > night, which means that while you can still order it until October 2017, > the ASR920 will be cheaper and is the future of of Metro-E from Cisco in > this segment.
the ME3600x is mostly fine for this sort of thing, with the exception of its control plane policing mechanism which is badly limited in a number of important ways, not least the fact that its traffic categorisation buckets are non-configurable and not what you might necessarily want for customer edge service. Nick