[160743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew McConachie)
Tue Feb 12 09:07:43 2013
In-Reply-To: <511A325D.300@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:07:27 +0100
From: Andrew McConachie <smutt@depht.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 12:09, Andrew McConachie wrote:
> > I normally just lurk but I thought I would post to clear up the
> confusion.
> > Full disclosure, I am an Extreme Networks TAC engineer.
> >
> > The x450 does not support any VPLS/H-VPLS/MPLS and is discontinued. It
> was
> > replaced with the x460 which does support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS. The x480 and
> > x670 both support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS.
>
> Thanks for the clarification on this. The data sheet on the x670 doesn't
> actually mention vpls:
>
> www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/products/DSSumX670_1777.pdf
>
> ... just that there is an mpls feature set license, but with no details of
> what it contains.
>
> Normally vendors can't tell enough about useful features like this, so in
> the absence of mentioning it I had assumed incorrectly that it wasn't
> supported on this platform. Maybe you could get the documentation updated
> to include this information, because this is an important feature?
>
> Nick
>
>
>
Thanks for pointing that out. Documentation folks have been alerted. For
a quick comparison of all switches I like the Comparison Guide the best.
http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/products/MSComparisonChart_1636.pdf
--Andrew
