[180032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Tantsura)
Wed May 20 02:54:13 2015
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From: Jeff Tantsura <jeff.tantsura@ericsson.com>
To: Mark Tees <marktees@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 06:54:07 +0000
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ASR1K (XE) has great BGP implementation, go for it if you are OK with densi=
ty/throughput.
Regards,
Jeff
> On May 19, 2015, at 11:35 PM, Mark Tees <marktees@gmail.com> wrote:
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> For the lists benefit, there is a 6 X 10GBE option for the ASR1000
> series it seems. No idea on pricing though.
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> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/application-networking-s=
ervices/wide-area-application-services-waas-software/data-sheet-c78-729778.=
pdf
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> Cheers,
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> Mark
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>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote=
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>>> On 19/May/15 20:46, Ray Soucy wrote:
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>>> An ASR1K might do the trick, but more likely than not you're looking at=
an
>>> ASR9K if you want full tables; I don't have any experience with the 1K
>>> personally so I can't speak to that. The ASR 9K is a really great plat=
form
>>> and is what we use for BGP here, but it's pretty much the opposite of c=
heap.
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>> The ASR1000 is a very good box, but I tend to prefer them for low-speed
>> services, which are generally non-Ethernet in nature, e.g., downstream
>> customers coming in via SDH.
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>> They do support 10Gbps ports, but that is a 1-port SPA; and the most you
>> can have in today's SIP's (carrier cards) would be 4x 1-port SPA's. So
>> not very dense.
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>> Their forwarding planes start at 2.5Gbps (fixed) all the way to 200Gbps
>> (13-slot chassis). But you're more likely to run out of high-speed ports
>> before you stress a 200Gbps forwarding plane on that chassis.
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>> So if the applications are purely Ethernet, I'd not consider the
>> ASR1000. But if there is a mix-and-match for Ethernet and non-Ethernet
>> ports, it's the perfect box. That and the MX104.
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>> Mark.
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> Regards,
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> Mark L. Tees
