On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 29/01/2013 11:58, Nick Hilliard wrote:
None of them will do trill. The Extreme X670 and Juniper EX4550 will both do VPLS, though. The X670 won't do BGP.
this is incorrect: the ex4550 will do l2vpn/l3vpn but not vpls. The X480 does vpls, but not the X670.
Nick
I normally just lurk but I thought I would post to clear up the confusion. Full disclosure, I am an Extreme Networks TAC engineer. The x450 does not support any VPLS/H-VPLS/MPLS and is discontinued. It was replaced with the x460 which does support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS. The x480 and x670 both support VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS. The x460, x480 and x670 all support BGP. However, only the x480 can hold the BGP full-view in hardware. So while you can run BGP on the x460 or x670 they are really only suitable for iBGP. All switches require a Core license to run BGP and an MPLS license to run VPLS/H-VPLS/VPWS. Andrew