On 1/10/2011 9:28 AM, Chris wrote:
The ASRs seem to be the consensus in a lot of places. Wondering if anyone has tried anything like aggregating T1 customers onto a mux box, then connecting that back to a 6500.
What are the general impressions of the ASR series?
I need to get one to play with. I see them better for handling end-node terminations, and according to the cisco guys I've talked to, the ASR has and will continue to have more subscriber management functionality than traditional IOS. For t1, I either run a mux(telco side) into a CT3(ISP side) on a 7200 (there's equiv SPAs), or if it hits one of my larger pops, I drop it into a mux(telco side) which terminates with all of my OC3 and smaller circuits into a CHOC48(telco/ISP crossconnect link). Given that most of these circuits are being long hauled anyways, this just made the best sense to us. It also (even though telco/ISP are related in this case) assisted in management domains. Jack