I would suggest doing a VC with the TOR switches. That way you can have "one" switch for a lot of racks (I believe 10 would be the upper limit if using Juniper). If you have a VC you could do L3 and L2 where needed on every rack that the VC covers.
// Olof 2009/11/13 Łukasz Bromirski <luk...@bromirski.net>: > On 2009-11-12 22:37, David Coulson wrote: > >> The MX-series are pretty nice. That should be able to do VPLS PE, >> however I've never tried it - MX240 did it pretty well last time I >> tried. I've no clue how the cost of that switch compares to a cisco 4900 >> or something (not that a 4900 is anything special - L3 is all in >> software). > > For both 4948/4948-10GE and 4900M L3 is in hardware. For > 4948/4948-10GE IPv6 is in software, for 4900M it's in hardware. > > -- > "Everything will be okay in the end. | Łukasz Bromirski > If it's not okay, it's not the end. | http://lukasz.bromirski.net > >
