switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC

Tue Feb 12 14:07:27 UTC 2013

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at 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