MPLS/MEF Switches and NIDs

Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE lb at 6by7.net
Fri May 28 23:16:21 UTC 2021


Ciena was chosen by AT&T to deliver much of their enterprise fiber in MTOBs and such.  Unsure if they run MPLS but it looks like it from the physical topology.

Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
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> On May 28, 2021, at 3:46 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, I was surprised as you that they have these routing features. I was also surprised they had multiple boxes that compete with aggregation devices like the ACX5048. The question is how good is Ciena's MPLS, switching, and routing stack compared to the established players of Juniper, Cisco, and Nokia? Ciena is no small company, so I think they would have the resources to make it happen.
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>> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:32 PM <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:
>> Wow, ciena has the means to implement SR and MPLS services?  I mean they run the underlying LS IGP to signal those SID’s ??  I didn’t know that.  I may look at them in the future then.  I thought Ciena just did some sort of static mpls-tp or something…
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>> We use Accedian as NID’s with SkyLight director for PAA (SLA stuff)…and uplink those into our network at (yester-year, Cisco ME3600’s and ASR9000’s), but now, ACX5048 and MX204
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>> -Aaron
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