Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

[Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca>]

> 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’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.