I think e in ren is edu not edge L3vpn or L2vpn for pseudo back haul or l2 extensions State ren I assume to stand for regional education network so likely vrf would be public internet possibly Internet 2 , district traffic, maybe higher Ed access for night class and vice versa.
One way to achieve 10g mpls plus full table and stay under 10k you may be better served to break out pre-agg role for mpls and private L3 hand off and for Internet peering step a hop back and peer at agg with a heavy duty juniper or cisco box over a l2vpn extension to the CE Sent from my iPad > On Apr 9, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Tim Raphael <raphael.timo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > L3VPN hand off is the only thing I can think of from the top of my head. But > then, there would be no need to have a full table unless you had customers > requesting a full table. > > It sounds like the OP is looking for one device to do multiple roles where > two/three different device types and/or sizes would fit better. > > >> On 9 Apr 2015, at 10:18 pm, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So to return this to a more rational basis - why does an edge network >> need MPLS in the first place? >