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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

> yes, but to be honest with you our mpls stack is more feature-rich.... :)

Of course, but in mind this was driven by industry / vendor influence. MPLS 
box has the reputation to be SP oriented with "SP price tag"
And MPLS is a technology unfamiliar to DC guys ...

> with this addition we can provide layer2 access on our ports and
> connect it to the evpn overlay through raw ip but that's it...
It should be then a recommended RARE Validated design: DCI via MPLS/EVPN 
overlay :)

> if i had to choose then i would use only routed endpoints because
> "never trust a ethernet cable longer that 100 meters" [unknown engineer at 
> 3:45 am]
Not sure why people are so fond of L2, we had this previous discussion during 
the early days of LHCONE they really wanted a worldwide L2 network. Despite 
our advice/recommendation they implemented a worldwide L2. After 1/2 
broadcast storm sparked from newly additional L2 node at the edge ( on top of 
the transatlantic subsea cable ) they came back to reason. We have now a 
world wide LHCONE VRF. Far from being perfect, but much better ...

À bientôt,
--  Frederic




> Le 2 sept. 2020 à 20:05, mc36 <> a écrit :
> 
> hi,
> yes, but to be honest with you our mpls stack is more feature-rich.... :)
> with this addition we can provide layer2 access on our ports and
> connect it to the evpn overlay through raw ip but that's it...
> if i had to choose then i would use only routed endpoints because
> "never trust a ethernet cable longer that 100 meters" [unknown engineer at 
> 3:45 am]
> regards,
> cs