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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/Oct/17 14:40, Andrew Alston wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The mass
recovery of v4 space when you’re running thousands of MPLS
devices – becomes of major interest.</span></p>
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Agreed.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Also for us
– its about making sure the building blocks are in place –
and getting feature parity is about applying pressure to the
vendors – and what I’m finding in this space – vendors mmmm
actually react and get things in play reasonably quickly if
you stop buying certain devices because of lack of certain
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Agreed as well.<br>
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We did put some pressure on Cisco and Juniper some 2 years or so
ago. We have LDPv6 support in IOS XR, but support is still immature
in IOS and IOS XE.<br>
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We've just rolled out Junos 16.1 on our MX boxes, which is where
support has been introduced. We'll do some lab testing first, but
we're unlikely to enable it across the board because of dodgy
support in IOS XE.<br>
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At this stage, if we can get basic MPLSv6 forwarding done minus all
the fancy stuff (VPN's, TE, e.t.c.), that'll be a win. However, I
don't forecast that possibility until 2H'19, or even early 2020.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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