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Re: MPLS in the campus Network?
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 21:29:22 +0200
On 21/Oct/16 19:02, Javier Solis wrote:
With that said, what are the best options to be able to cost effectively scale without using vlans and maintaining a routed core? What technology would someone suggest (mpls, vxlan,etc) to be the best possible solution?
IME, MPLS is a good use-case here. If you are going to use the same /24 (or whatever prefix applies to you) across multiple locations, you will need some kind of overlay. Be it IP-in-IP, GRE, MPLS (l2vpn's or l3vpn's) or plain old Ethernet, you will need something. MPLS makes a lot of sense to me. It's native in hardware, upper-layer agnostic, mature, and reasonably affordable even at low scale. While I would not say MPLS is simple from a "complexity in your network" standpoint, it does provide a notable amount of simplicity when you're looking for an overlay that is transparent to all manner of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications that a packet-based network needs to transport. Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network?, (continued)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Mark Tinka (Oct 20)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Wayne Bouchard (Oct 24)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Nick Hilliard (Oct 20)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Marian Ďurkovič (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Mark Tinka (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Javier Solis (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Leo Bicknell (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Youssef Ghorbal (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? James R Cutler (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? David Bass (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Mark Tinka (Oct 21)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Mark Tinka (Oct 22)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Marian Ďurkovič (Oct 22)
- Re: MPLS in the campus Network? Mark Tinka (Oct 22)