[186050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opinions on Arista 7280?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Tue Nov 24 13:39:33 2015
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:39:30 -0600
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Have you looked at the brocade MLXe line?
On Nov 24, 2015 12:05 PM, "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
wrote:
> Curious if anyone's used the 7280 and wants to share their experience?
> I'm looking at it primarily for three reasons, MLAG (i.e. multi-chassis
> LACP), large ARP/MAC table (256k entries) and large IPv6 neighbor table
> (256k entries). For the table sizes we would like out of one pair of
> switches, we'd be into the Cisco 7000 series, but that's dramatically
> more expensive and we don't need much of anything else that it offers.
>
> Looked at Brocade too, but they don't have devices that can do the multi
> chassis LACP, has the huge table sizes and has a reasonable number of
> 10gig ports. It was possible to construct a workable solution using
> VDX's for switching and CER's for routing, but that's more complex than
> Arista's option if it's a usable option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
