[127875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Sun Jul 18 17:39:51 2010
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:13:46 +0930
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <CB280F01-3073-42CF-BCD4-C225B59B4BE9@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:12:29 +0100
Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 18 Jul 2010, at 10:58, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
> > ASR1K, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to, is a hardware-based router. Same for ASR9K.
>
> My c* SE swears that the asr1k is a "software router". I didn't push him on it's architecture though.
>
This document supports that. If the definition of a software router is
one that doesn't have a fixed at the factory forwarding function, then
the ASR1K is one.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9343/solution_overview_c22-448936.html
The CRS-3 might be too, as they say they've added the quantumflow
processor into those too.
> The asr9k is an npu based device - a completely different beast with different architecture / operating system / capabilities / etc.
>
> Nick
