[194742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco NCS5501 as a P Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Radu-Adrian Feurdean)
Sun May 28 08:16:20 2017
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From: "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog@radu-adrian.feurdean.net>
To: Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 14:16:16 +0200
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Hi,
We didn't test any of those features. My understandig was that they all
require extra licenses that would bring them "out of scope"
($$$-wise).... and our need was for pure "P-routers"... actually being
technically unable to perform as PE was kind of hidden requirement :)
On Sat, May 27, 2017, at 21:14, Aaron Gould wrote:
> Hi Radu-Adrian, have you done any MPLS PE functions on the NCS5001 ?
> ...like MPLS/VPLS L2VPN, or L3VPN ?
>
> I'm asking because I tried a NCS5001 in my lab about a year or 2 ago and
> it was pretty bad. At which point I was told to only try it as a P box
> from a Cisco engineer....at which point it dropped from my consideration
> since I needed to replace lots of Cisco ME3600's with mpls edge
> functions, and I ended up settling on the Juniper ACX5048.
>
> I'm wondering if Cisco improved that NCS5001 in more recent versions of
> XR to included functional MPLS L2 and L3 vpn's.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
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