For the lists benefit, there is a 6 X 10GBE option for the ASR1000 series it seems. No idea on pricing though. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/application-networking-serv... Cheers, Mark On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
On 19/May/15 20:46, Ray Soucy wrote:
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 platform and is what we use for BGP here, but it's pretty much the opposite of cheap.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark.
-- Regards, Mark L. Tees