Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/19/23 02:10, Patrick Cole wrote: Ciena has supported MPLS-TE on this platform for a long time not just TP.    Back 15+ years ago, I buit such a network.  At the time, the code was extremely green, did not support FRR, only active/standby LSPs.    Although it appeared to work fine in th

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-16 Thread Tom Mitchell
Lanner NCA-1516 -- Tom On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 9:15 AM Michel Blais wrote: > Pretty sure Ufispace S9502-12SM + IPInfusion OcNOS would work. VxLAN is > supported in the IP Base licence. CRS license must be avoided for VxLAN. > Look at the OcNOS feature matrix to make sure. > > Le mer. 14 juin 2

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-16 Thread Michel Blais
Pretty sure Ufispace S9502-12SM + IPInfusion OcNOS would work. VxLAN is supported in the IP Base licence. CRS license must be avoided for VxLAN. Look at the OcNOS feature matrix to make sure. Le mer. 14 juin 2023 à 14:51, Adam Thompson a écrit : > Hello, all. > > I’m having difficulty finding ve

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/15/23 09:21, Ryan Hamel wrote: It can't hold full tables for transit handoffs, but the customer can establish multi-hop BGP sessions upstream for that. Also, you don't really need to carry a full BGP table in FIB on a Metro-E router. That is one of the reasons it can remain cheap. You

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/15/23 09:21, Ryan Hamel wrote: I would never let the customer manage the CPE device, unless it was through some customer portal where automation can do checks and balances, nor have the device participate in a ring topology -- home runs or bust. If the device fails or has an issue requi

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-15 Thread Ryan Hamel
am for that. Ryan Hamel From: Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 11:50 PM To: Ryan Hamel ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care when clicking links or opening attachments. On 6/15/23 07:

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/15/23 07:53, Ryan Hamel wrote: I fully agree here too. That's why I proposed a "smarter" CPE to replace the standard appliances deployed on site, where the only thing changing is the configuration on the device itself, not product being handed off. I'm just always concerned about havi

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/15/23 07:49, Ryan Hamel wrote: If the customer's site goes offline, that is their problem. A CPE device is still a CPE device, no matter how smart it is. Setup IS-IS, BGP to route servers, LDP + MPLS if you don't go the VXLAN route, and that's it. So you have two issues here: * If i

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Ryan Hamel
behalf of Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 10:31 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care when clicking links or opening attachments. On 6/14/23 21:16, Joe Freeman wrote: I think

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Ryan Hamel
t boxes in the field as I speak. It works very well. I also agree with your stance on Broadcom, it's hard to come up with alternatives that are not ADVA/Ciena/Cisco/RAD. Ryan Hamel From: NANOG on behalf of Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 10:30 PM

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/14/23 22:06, Adam Thompson wrote: The redundant links to the customer site that traverse independent underlay carriers, and in some cases, equal-cost paths that we want to load-balance across, are the hard part.  I’m not going to trust STP for that, and we aim for <3sec failover where w

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/15/23 07:22, Marco Paesani wrote: Huawei NE8000-M1C I envy folk who aren't mobile operators that are brave enough to run Huawei for their IP/MPLS network deliberately, i.e., without influence from "management" because they got a good deal :-). Not for us. Mark.

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/14/23 21:16, Joe Freeman wrote: I think you’re probably overthinking this a bit. Why do you need to extend your vxlan/evpn to the customer premise? There are a number of 1G/10G even 100G CPE demarc devices out there that push/pop tags, even q-in-q, or 802.1ad. Assuming you have some t

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/14/23 22:04, Ryan Hamel wrote: Putting the smart devices on the edge allows for a much-simplified core topology. Putting smart devices in the edge does simplify the network, yes. What doesn't is making the customer's site part of your edge. We've been running MPLS all the way into t

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Marco Paesani
Huawei NE8000-M1C On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 07:20 Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 6/14/23 20:50, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Hello, all. > > I’m having difficulty finding vendors, never mind products, that fit my > need. > > > > We have a small but growing number of L2 (bridged) customers that have > divers

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 6/14/23 20:50, Adam Thompson wrote: Hello, all. I’m having difficulty finding vendors, never mind products, that fit my need. We have a small but growing number of L2 (bridged) customers that have diverse fiber paths available, and, naturally, want to make use of them. We have a solu

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Yan Filyurin
There may be a few more places to go searching. I am not saying you will find anything, but worth looking into, assuming Mikrotik won't help. :) Check out what various SD-WAN vendors have to offer. Now, SD-WAN has about 46 definitions, as many as vendors (surviving vendors that is), but undernea

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Ryan Hamel
:27:02 PM To: Adam Thompson ; nanog Subject: RE: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care when clicking links or opening attachments. The Juniper EX4100-F-12T is pretty nice. Fanless, 1RU, 4x SFP+, 2x 10G Copper which can also be used

RE: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Brandon Price
Adam Thompson Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 11:51 AM To: nanog Subject: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you are expecting this email and/or know the content is safe. Hello, all. I’m having

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Arie Vayner
Not sure how much of "CPE" it needs to be, but for example the whole Cisco Catalyst 9K product line (including the smaller C9300 switches) support the whole EVPN/VXLAN stack). A similar set of products exist on the Arista side (e.g. 7xx switches) as well as Juniper EX4400 products... On Wed, Jun 1

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, equal-cost paths that we want to load-balance across, are the hard part.  I’m not going to trust STP for that, and we aim for <3sec failover where we do have redundant paths.  ERPS can handle the failover, but not the load-balancing. You have EVPN already, perhaps just use active-active

RE: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Adam Thompson
users=athomp...@merlin.mb.ca> From: Joe Freeman Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 2:16 PM To: Adam Thompson ; nanog Subject: Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? I think you’re probably overthinking this a bit. Why do you need to extend your vxlan/evpn to the customer premise? There are a number of 1G/10

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Ryan Hamel
the vendor personally and have not worked on their hardware, so your mileage may vary. Ryan From: NANOG on behalf of Joe Freeman Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 12:19:26 PM To: Adam Thompson ; nanog Subject: Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? Caution: This is an

Re: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Joe Freeman
security. This way you’re not exposing your whole service infrastructure to a bad actor that might unplug your cpe device and plug into your network directly. From: NANOG on behalf of Adam Thompson Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 2:52 PM To: nanog Subject: 10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors? Hello

10G CPE w/VXLAN - vendors?

2023-06-14 Thread Adam Thompson
Hello, all. I’m having difficulty finding vendors, never mind products, that fit my need. We have a small but growing number of L2 (bridged) customers that have diverse fiber paths available, and, naturally, want to make use of them. We have a solution for this: we extend the edge of our EVPN VXL