[AusNOG] Running out of VLANs

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 15 Dec 2013, at 10:55 pm, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> The only decent option here is Metro Ethernet and the number of VLANs your equipment can support.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

This last bit - being able to do Q-in-Q and rewriting (look for boxes that support/comply with MEF standards) are what you need to scale ethernet aggregation.  

MMC