On 26/04/16 02:03, Tom Hill 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.
Judging from the NCS 5001 configuration guides they (NCS5K) don't support any VPLS, is that correct? Just EoMPLS?
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.
I had hoped for MOD400-ish 9001 replacement for a while, however, I was told an ASR9001 successor is highly unlikely in the next few years unless a very large customer asks for it.
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).
Does the NCS 5508 support VPLS? -- Chris