<div dir="ltr">The only decent option here is Metro Ethernet and the number of VLANs your equipment can support.<div><br>Whether it is an MX960 supporting 128k VLANs (obviously 4k per port), Brocade MLXe which supports 4k VLANs, or Cisco ME4924 which supports 4k VLANs or many others... you need to upgrade.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Being able to extract VLANs from Q-in-Q is helpful as is VLAN renumbering.... any switch which calls itself Metro Ethernet is something you want to look into.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM, James Mcintosh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.mcintosh@rocketmail.com" target="_blank">james.mcintosh@rocketmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div>Hi Noggers,</div><div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
What are people doing about hitting switch VLAN limits? We terminate a lot of Ethernet services from several carriers. Our Cisco switch gear is great but limited to 128 spanning tree VLAN sessions and 1,000 VLANs.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">We've long since passed the <span style="font-size:12pt">128 per-VLAN spanning tree
limit. We're now getting closing in on 1,000 VLANs.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I'm sure there are service providers on list who are much larger than we are and have solved this problem.</span></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<span style="font-size:12pt">Would love to hear thoughts on the best approach.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">
<span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Just to give a bit more detail - we aggregate all our upstream carrier circuits on the Cisco switch then trunk the customer VLANs to the appropriate router for termination.</span></div>
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