[192117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS in the campus Network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Thu Oct 20 12:31:11 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog@lixfeld.ca>
In-Reply-To: <99dc1aab-1682-9fb5-1e79-c36dd944603b@seacom.mu>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:29:00 -0400
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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>> It=E2=80=99s only more expensive the more big vendor products you =
use. Sometimes you need to (i.e.: Boxes with big RIB/FIBs for DFZ, or =
deep buffers), but more and more, people are looking to OCP/White Box =
Switches [1][2].
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> It doesn't sound like the OP needs massive FIB space, so he could =
implement FIB filtering and run the smaller boxes that have all the =
features but lack the FIB real estate of the larger routers/switches.
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> This is what we do for our Metro-E Access networks.
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> Mark.
Likely not at the PE, true, but he did say Internet access, so I err=E2=80=
=99d on the side of assuming DFZ, somewhere. If that assumption is =
true, FIB resources for the SP interconnect nodes and filtering towards =
the PEs, absolutely.=