Ruckus ICX switches do not do MPLS. They meet all the other requirements listed, but unfortunately MPLS was listed as the most important one.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 3:01 PM Brandon Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/18/2018 03:49 PM, Eric Litvin wrote: > > Brocade/arris is eager for business these days. They have a nice switch > (10g ports with 40g stacking) that should meet your needs with very > aggressive pricing. > > Does the Brocade/Foundry-lineage stuff that went to Arris actually do > MPLS? I didn't think ICX did any MPLS. > > The SLX (and MLX) line that went to Extreme does but is perhaps overkill > (it will also do Internet-scale FIB). The SLX9540 is a 48 port SFP+ > pizza box that also has 6 40/100Gb QSFP+/28 ports on it. You'd need the > "advanced feature" license for MPLS, and I don't know how mature the > MPLS code is. Pricing I've seen is pretty good for what you get, but > again it may be overkill. > > Juniper has some nice boxes in the EX series with at least MPLS > L2-endpoint functionality that might also be an option for this sort of > thing, but I don't know any models off the top of my head. > -- > Brandon Martin > -- -- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure
