Hi. Anyone there has any information (experience) about Gigarouters like GRF1600 (Ascend) or GSR12000 (Cisco). I want to know performance, availability, scalability and limitations data in "real world", I mean in real condition of internet traffic. Thanks in advance. Rogerio
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 wrote:
Hi.
Anyone there has any information (experience) about Gigarouters like GRF1600 (Ascend) or
The product had a lot of problems when it first came out (I was a beta customer), but with hard work Ascend fixed all of them. The box now nice and stable. If you want to do a lot of OC12 interfaces I would go with the GSR, but if you are looking for a box to replace your 75xx with, then I would go with the GRF.
GSR12000 (Cisco).
Very stable, but I have only worked with them for a few weeks.
I want to know performance, availability, scalability and limitations data in "real world", I mean in real condition of internet traffic.
The GRF function just find in real world conditions.
Thanks in advance.
Rogerio
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I have information that several ISPs used them and don't any more. On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 wrote:
Hi.
Anyone there has any information (experience) about Gigarouters like GRF1600 (Ascend) or GSR12000 (Cisco).
I want to know performance, availability, scalability and limitations data in "real world", I mean in real condition of internet traffic.
Thanks in advance.
Rogerio
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:35:55 -0200 (EDT) Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 <rogerio@embratel.net.br> wrote:
Hi.
Anyone there has any information (experience) about Gigarouters like GRF1600 (Ascend) or GSR12000 (Cisco).
We have GRF-400, [a 4 port version of the 1600] it initially worked good. I like GateD and Ascend added some cool features. However we had issues with scalibilty on the box. PPS performace isn't the biggest issue you should be worried about. Management and support is important. Managing the GRF isn't easy. Support from Ascend wasn't all that hot either. The ATM card on it has some real problems though. You can't add PVC's reliably to it. We've heard that other IF cards have packet corruption problems. Some updates [1.4.6] have broken just about every feature in the box and we got to the stage that it wasn't good business sense to continue to use the machine. Cisco and IOS have a lot of maturity that Ascend, and I suspect people like Juniper, Torrent, NN, and Packet Engines don't have. Meaning that one day it may work well but for the time being its just to risky. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. neil@DOMINO.ORG NetBSD-1.3 released! ftp://ftp.uk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>
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