On 1/17/15, 7:15 PM, "Saku Ytti" <s...@ytti.fi> wrote:
>On (2015-01-17 12:02 +0100), Marian Ďurkovič wrote: > >> Our experience after 100 days of production is only the best - TRILL >>setup >> is pretty straightforward and thanks to IS-IS it provides shortest-path >> IP-like "routing" for L2 ethernet packets over any reasonable topology >> out of the box (without the burden and cost implications of VPLS). > >I'm not sure what the burden refers to, but cost implications to me seem >same, >trident HW can do VPLS. >From complexity POV, I don't expect much different development time to >write >functioning control-plane to either. > >I'm not against Trill, I think Trill, and especially SPB-M are great, now >they >just feel too little and 20 years too late. There was no particular >reason why >SPB-M couldn't have existed 20 years ago in HW. But perhaps it's good it >didn't, it might have made ethernet 'good enough', that selling MPLS might >have been much more difficult. > >-- > ++ytti I think in fairly short order both TRILL and 802.1AQ will be depercated in place of VXLAN and using BGP EVPN as the control plane ala Juniper QFX5100/Nexus 9300. Phil
