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Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch
From: Daniel Corbe <corbe () corbe net>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:18:22 -0500
Cliff Bowles <Cliff.Bowles () apollo edu> writes:
We have some aging infrastructure and need to start budgeting next-gen. * The network has several small routers as individual edges to peers, WAN, SIP services. * It has a couple 6509s as Internet edge (full tables, 2 carriers, no transit, simple policies) * It has some Nexus 7K as an aggregation layer for all the server pods * It has some 6509s as a backbone to interconnect the aggregation layers and inter-site links. * We do run VRFs/MPLS across our backbone with L3, L2 and L1 services. Nothing super fancy, but it's a requirement.
You could always roll the 6509s into 6800 series stuff if you're married to Cisco for Campus style switches in your distribution network. But I really hate the Sup2T. In my admittedly limited scope, they have a pretty high failure rate. If you want something simple that still supports MPLS and VPLS, you can't really beat Brocade for port density. I getting ready to rip out 6 sets of 6509s and replace them with 16 slot MLXe chasis. And if I were in your shoes I'd be looking at either ASR9K or Juniper MX series stuff to replace the 6509s that you have on your edge. I can't speak much for the server-facing stuff on your network though. -Daniel
Current thread:
- Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Cliff Bowles (Feb 09)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Daniel Corbe (Feb 09)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Mark Tinka (Feb 09)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Ken Chase (Feb 10)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Steve Meuse (Feb 09)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Mark Tinka (Feb 09)
- Re: Need recommendations for high-feature, high-density L3 Switch Daniel Corbe (Feb 09)