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WAN
Requirement
WAN WAN
Solution
Virtual switching system (VSS) Virtual PortChannel (vPC) Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
Platform
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series VSS Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches vPC Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T (Sup2T): VPLS (native support) Supervisor Engine 720 (Sup720): For A-VPLS, needs Cisco Shared Port Adapter Interface Processor 400 (SIP-400) or Ethernet Services Plus (ES+) line cards; for VPLS, needs SIP-400 or SIP-600 or ES+ line cards
Core
Core
Layer 3 Layer 2
Layer 3 Extension
Layer 3
Layer 2
Access
Access
Data Center
Business Need
Diasater Prevention Business Continuance Workload Mobility
IT Solutions
Active-Standby Migration Server High-Availability Clusters (Geoclustering) Move and Consolidate Servers (VMware VMotion)
Layer 2 over IP
EoMPLS over generic routing encapsulation (EoMPLSoGRE) A-VPLS over GRE (A-VPLSoGRE)
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 (needs Cisco SIP-400 or ES+ line card) Cisco Nexus 7000 Series or Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup2T Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 (with VPN SPA [VSPA] module and Cisco SPA Services Card 600 [SSC-600]) or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 or Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Encryption
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At-A-Glance
Figure 3.
IP or MPLS
Site D Site C
Access
Table 3.
Requirement
Layer 2 over MPLS
Solution
EoMPLS VPLS A-VPLS
Platform
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Sup2T: VPLS (native) Sup720: A-VPLS needs SIP-400 or ES+ line cards; VPLS needs SIP-400 or SIP-600 or ES+ line cards Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 with Cisco SIP400 or ES+ Cisco Nexus 7000 Series or Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup2T Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 (with Cisco SSC600 and VSPA), or Cisco ASR 1000 Series Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Sup720 (with Cisco SIP400 or SIP-600 or ES+),or Cisco ASR 1000 Series
Layer 2 over IP
EoMPLSoGRE A-VPLSoGRE
Table 2.
Encryption
Requirement
Layer 2 over fiber
Solution
VSS and Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) vPC IEEE 802.1ae
Platform
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series VSS Cisco Nexus 7000 Series vPC Cisco Nexus 7000 Series or Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series with Sup2T Multilevel QoS
HQoS
Encryption
Figure 3 and Table 3 provide details of the Cisco DCI LAN extension over IP- or MPLS-based WAN solution.
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