[177859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metaswitch ax1000 as a RR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sat Feb 7 03:20:47 2015
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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 10:18:50 +0200
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 5/Feb/15 22:41, David Bass wrote:
> I have a client looking to implement x86 based route reflectors, and was looking at the ax1000. I'm wondering if anyone has implemented it yet, and what your experience has been?
>
> Any other alternatives would also be appreciated. This customer does standard L3 VPNs, and VPLS services so the software has to support that.
I have spoken about our success in using Cisco's CSR1000v on ESXi on
x86_64 hardware previously on this list.
Yes, the licenses will cost you (both VMware and CSR1000v). KVM is
supported, but I haven't tried it. Suffice it to say, Cisco seem to be
putting most of their energy into ESXi.
Mark.
