Tom, Do you actually think that Cisco would sell at NCS 5501 at the price point that Arista is going to sell a 7280R for? Spec wise they are very similar (except Arista has 8 more SFP+ ports and two more 100G ports). Arista is pricing the 7280R inline with Ciscos ASR9001. I doubt Cisco will offer a NCS 5501 for the same price as an ASR9001. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Tom Hill <tom@ninjabadger.net> wrote:
On 19/04/16 14:46, Chris Welti wrote:
According to some slides from a russian cisco connect event, the upcoming small-size NCS 5501 and NCS 5502 will support 1M+ FIB and 50ms per port buffers. Seem to be killer boxes. 48x100GE in 2RU with large FIB & buffers? Loving it already. I wonder what prices will look like for those.
I'd heard rumours... But those are interesting specifications. The NCS5501 isn't too far away from the Arista 7280R, and is probably Jericho underneath, too. But with a good MPLS stack, as is the case for the other NCS devices.
Some might be thinking "9001 upgrade!" but it's more likely direct competition to Arista's recent moves. That and I still hope there will be a MOD200-ish 9001 replacement to come at some point.
Oh - and it's NCS 55k, not NCS 5k. The NCS 5508 is already a product, noted for its better buffers than the NCS 5001 & 5002 (which also already exist).
-- Tom