Friday, March 8, 2019

CPE Options for Carrier Services

Hey, what's the current favorites for various carrier services? I hate having a box for every type of service and speed. Would like to narrow the choices.

Enterprise guys.. what do you expect to pay for this type of gear when you order a service? Carrier guys--what are you charging for the equipment?

Need something for:

transparent L2 services

-to be terminated on PE router into VPLS/martini circuit

-customer should be able to pass multiple tagged/labeled traffic.. no restrictions

-being able to loop/reflect a customer port would be nice for RFC2544 testing

-one box for all speeds from 10M to 1G

-nice CLI

-I see lots of NIDs for sub $1000. Should fit this price range

L3VPN CE equipment:

-seamless MPLS would be nice (and be cheap? hah, doubt it)

-has to be "name-brand", Cisco, Juniper (preferred), etc

-something that can do 1G at wirespeed and maybe a different box for 100M and less

-what a reasonable cost for the CE router?



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