Thanks Dylan and everybody else for the excellent feedback.
I think I have gained quite a few good ideas on a node to use for this
purpose. If anybody has information on the performance (PPS scaling) on the
mikrotiks that would be of interest.
If anybody has information on 2nd hand 7710s from ALU also that would be
interesting (and for that matter, cisco 72xx, juniper m5/7x, or the newer
boxes as Dylan mentioned like the ME3600, including any required license/sw
costs).
Thanks again,
Anton
On 21 December 2011 22:05, Dylan Hall
** I've not read the details of the UFB handover, but assuming it's similar to HSNS and EUBA we have two ways of handling them.
On one hand-over we're using a Linux box. We're using the bridging code to combine one or more Chorus vlans into a bridge which we then put on a different interface out to our main network. We've got this going with single stacked (HSNS) and double stacked (EUBA) services.
On our other hand-over we're using a Cisco ME3600. We're using a service-instance per customer to map them into a bridge-domain. We've only tested this with single stacked services but I believe it should work with double stacked.
In both cases we're not doing any fancy queuing, instead relying on Chorus to do the rate-limiting for us. Also, we're interested in providing an end-to-end layer 2 service only which may make our requirements somewhat different than the average service provider :)
Happy to provide config snippets for any of the above if it helps.
Dylan
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 16:12 +0000, Anton Smith wrote:
Hi all,
Given the handover options from Chorus for UFB ( http://www.chorus.co.nz/file/1591), does anybody have any recommendations about a cost effective GE based node that can do QinQ happily? Port density probably only needs to be 2-4 ports. Control/forwarding redundancy not required.
And, preferably with the capability to set individual policers and/or queue rates on each sub-interface.
I don't know if chorus give you the option to do the rate limiting for you or not - does anybody know?
Cheers,
Anton
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