Hi all!
I have a question here regarding MACsec on routers which I cant find out. Ill be very concise and short here to present the situation easily, but if something is missing in the question, please let me know.
My background: I have not worked too much with Cisco, but I do have a CCNP after intense studying, so you can be some sort of advanced in your answers :)
Scenario: I have a core network with different Cisco routers (1712, 1812, 3745, 3925 etc...) and the business wants to implement MACsec on every link between these routers, and my job is to find a cost estimate for this. As I have understood (hopefully correctly), you can not purely implement that, you need some sort of physical device/module before you can start doing this?
In this PDF: https://clnv.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/usa/pdf/BRKRST-2309.pdf they refer to these routers as "MACsec Capable Routers" when they illustrate the consepts of MACsec, and the only extra thing I can extract from the PDF is that there is a link requirement which is:
"Requires dedicated MetroE
EVC circuits for L2 connectivity between sites"
Anyways, I have a problem getting further here in my task. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Thanks a lot!
