Saturday, March 31, 2018

C3850-12XS as MPLS P switch

Hello Redditors,

I've got a question related to the C3850-12XS, now that these devices have MPLS support I was thinking about building a small MPLS core (4x P routers connected at 10GE) using these devices.

They seem to fit, would only be used as MPLS P (LSR) devices not PE, as such the routing table would be quite small (probably less than 100 routes), wouldn't participate on BGP only single area OSPF, there's also no need for MPLS-TE, this basically to build a solution (cheap one) to provide L3VPN, VPLS services between 2 locations.

This is for a small project, traffic stats are going to be small as well (we don't expect going above 20 Gbps in a single direction in the next 2 years at least).

So, the question is, has anyone tried this? or is doing this on a production environment? how stable has it been for you? we mainly consider the model due to it having the features we need for a 10GE P core device at the scale we work with a good pricing.



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