[c-nsp] ASR 9000

[Christian MacNevin]

Am I the only one that's getting a bit wary of Cisco crowding their own
product space?

I guess it looks like they're trying to draw complete distinctions between
their enterprise space and their carrier
space, but who's ever really respected that distinction? Even if they do,
the carrier I guess is doing ok by getting
XR everywhere, but the typical enterprise is going to run a combination of
3500/3750, 2800/3800, 6500, 7600
and ASR1000s, right? So five different groups of platforms with five
distinct feature sets and code bases. Not to
mention any 'legacy' stuff you're running out there.

God help anybody who deployed 7300s.



On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Julio Arruda <jarruda-cnsp at jarruda.com>wrote:

> Kevin Graham wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> Runs IOS XR, while the recent ASR 1000 series runs IOS XE?  Consistency
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> would be nice.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ...or atleast call this a CRS-2 or something. I'm still crossing my
>> fingers
>> that there's a master plan for consistency (or alternatively, clear
>> differentiation) between XR/XE/12.2SX/12.2SR/NX-OS.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Re-uses the RSP nomenclature, just recently put to bed in the 7500
>>> series.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nope, 7600 already revived it (RSP720). I don't see reference to line
>> cards,
>> but the photos look like ES40's, which finally gives some credibility to
>> the
>> 6500/7600 split (where new linecards are shared between ASR9000 and 7600).
>>
>>
> I somewhat doubt this is the case..at least from what I can imagine...
> This would imply in the ASR9k cards being able to talk with the 7600
> backplane, that I understand, is quite distinct from the CRS-1 ? Isn't
> the ASR9000 based of the CRS-1 hardware ?
> Isn't the ASR 9000 based of the CRS-1 Metro packet processors also,
> while the packet crunching on the 7600 is based of the EARL, and on the
> ASR 1000 is based on the QFP ?
> I can't seem to find details on the cards on the ASR 9000, but, just
> making some wild guess here..
> (of course, Cisco has been quite effective in getting a clear separation
> from control plane to forwarding plane, and IOS-XR sure already runs on
> another completely distinct box, the 12K-XR, so, maybe the 7600 will
> gain from the ASR 9000 'revamp').
>
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