>From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co.nz@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Shawn L via NANOG
>Sent: Wednesday, 25 December 2024 9:07 am
>To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
>Subject: Re: Distributed Router Fabrics

>It has been an interesting discussion.  Always willing to see what others are doing in this space and evaluate it to what we're doing / thinking about going forward.

>We were just quoted 250k+ for a Cisco ASR9902 with one route processor card (list. not our price).  There can be 2 rps, but they don't talk to each other -- who thought that was a good idea.  We were just looking for something that could take a couple of full tables and had 2 - 4 100g connections.

>We're still using ASR920s (12 10g ports, rather uncommon) at most of our pops but have seen the writing on the wall that 10g will not be enough at some point and 100g will be necessary. 

Nokia 7750-sr2s would do what you want at a much better price point I would suggest.

>I did have an interesting conversation with Ribbon (we have a C15 phone switch) about their Neptune platform.  Surprisingly affordable when you look at what Cisco is charging.  Though they didn't have as many 100g interfaces as I'd like -- can't see using them as a BGP speaking router, but for internal transport stuff, it was definitely attractive.

>Again, always nice to see what others are using / considering for similar stuff.  Too often all we hear about are the 'really big guys' and how they're deploying X for 400g now, etc.  

Shawn