VRF Lite scalability question

[news2010a]

Hi,

Imagine organization has about 300 partners. Currently data center has 100 Cisco 1800 routers to accept P2P connections for each partner.

Now organization proposal is:

- Use MPLS and use an extranet network. Advertise a certain unique route to each partner..

- Grant unique VPN ID for each partner and VRF Lite at the data center. Then bring each partner with separate tagged VLAN to the data center via MPLS.

Can VRF Lite scale to more than 300+ partners OK?

Anyone has any suggestion about a good extranet-parnter design or the above seems alright?

[Laurent Aubert]

HI,

To support more than 300 VRF's you should replace all your 1800 routers with 2x ASR1k (I put 2x only for redundancy purpose).

HTH

Laurent.