[148267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QinQ switch or similar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sun Jan 8 13:46:16 2012
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:45:13 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Bonald <bonald@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACY_u+g29FK7iE+B5ee9S5RUTB3fA1fdUJW0uzg+ZFpgxjdbwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/6/12 12:31 , Bonald wrote:
> Hi,
> We need to purchase some switch that support 1gbit QinQ.
> Any suggestions ? We need to connect 9 schools together in layer2.
> All 9 schools have 1gb link from our provider, provider gaves us 5 vlan to
> work with.
> We have around 35 vlan in-house.
>
> We are low budget. Any recommendation beside QinQ ?
The alternative to QinQ would be the exercise would probably be more
scalable if the broadcast domains vlans of each, were constrained to
their respective sites.
Something like force10 s25n would be all the l3 switch you'd need to
make this routed.
