On 22/May/18 10:19, Matt Geary wrote:
Yeah Cisco rep commented that adding LDP to nexus would make ASR obsolete. 48x10g with LDP for $5-7k Yeah no brainer.
Gee, someone at Cisco had their thinking cap on. Let's hope Gert isn't reading this, lest he vent-off about the 6500/7600 debacle (and rightly so) :-). Seriously though, crippling one box to help ship another has never sat well with me. In the first instance, what business does a switch have being a label switching router? Maybe I'm too purist, but when functions begin to overlap like this, it's headache for operators and multiple sources of revenue for equipment vendors, despite what their "portfolio positioning" suggests. They are very aware about the confusion they are causing, at our expense. At least there are some new entrants into the space that haven't yet been totally corrupted by the silo-based approach that leads to the same company appearing like 1,200 different ones.
Although on other point I am not really seeing the value of SR to replace LDP on my backbone. With some scripting and lots of software tools I can make it just like LDP, but why? So break the ease of LDP just to get label switching on my hub core not really seeing it, unless someone has done it and they are seeing the value.
Yep, my point exactly. Mark.