MPLS in the campus Network?

Thu Oct 20 16:29:00 UTC 2016

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 20/Oct/16 17:12, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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>> It’s 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’d 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.