Huawei NE8000-M1C On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 07:20 Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
> > > On 6/14/23 20:50, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Hello, all. > > I’m having difficulty finding vendors, never mind products, that fit my > need. > > > > We have a small but growing number of L2 (bridged) customers that have > diverse fiber paths available, and, naturally, want to make use of them. > > We have a solution for this: we extend the edge of our EVPN VXLAN fabric > right to the customer premise. The customer-prem device needs 4x10G SFP+ > cages (2 redundant paths, plus LAG to customer), and the switches we > currently use, Arista 7020Rs, are quite expensive if I’m deploying one one > per customer. (Nice switches, but overkill here – I don’t need 40/100G, > and I don’t need 24 SFP+ ports. And they still take forever to ship.) > > > > We use RFC7438 §6.3 “vlan-aware-bundle” mode, not §6.1 “vlan-based” mode, > which limits our choices somewhat. I might be willing to entertain > spinning up a separate VXLAN mesh using RFC7438 §6.1 (“vlan-based”) and > static VTEPs if it saves me a lot of pain. > > > > However, I’m having trouble finding small & cheap*er* 1U (or even > desktop/wallmount) devices that have 4 SFP+ cages, and can do VXLAN, in the > first place. > > Who even makes CPE gear with SFP+ ports? (Other than Mikrotik > CRS309-1G-8S+IN / CRS317-1G-16S+RM, which are nice, but our policy requires > vendor support contracts, so… no-go.) > > > > Vendors? Model#s, if you happen to know any? > > > You will have trouble finding such a device at the price you need because > it is atypical to have your customer's CPE as part of your Metro-E backbone. > > Our sales people have asked for this more times than I can remember. We > have continued to refuse for a reason. > > They've angled their query to extend our u-PE devices into the customer > site, to which they can attach their CPE. We have refused that too, because > most customer's do not allow 3rd party fibre x-connects into their site > (for example, some country's embassy, a stock exchange building, a bank, > e.t.c.), never mind the fact that most customer sites are not fitted with > 24/7/365 availability and security. And we continue to refuse. > > My advice - don't do it. But it sounds like you want to, so... > > Mark. >
