[c-nsp] Recommended Cisco boxes for a smallmultihoming solution?

[Ray Burkholder]

> 
> Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > And to repeat - to the best of my knowledge the 3825 can't 
> take 1GB of 
> > RAM and therefore is not an optimal solution for small 
> multihoming.  
> > -Hank

In Cisco's Dynamic configurator, you can upgrade from 256M to 1024M.

> 
> To get to the point - ASR1002 would be the box.
> 
> -- 

Are ASR1002's actually worth 3x the price of something like a
7206VXR/NPE-G2?  When you add appropriate licensing costs, pricing can
become 5x to 10x the price.  Does it push that many extra packets that much
faster?

Also, in using Cisco's Feature Navigator to compare feature sets, say ADV
IP, the XE 2.2.1 line seems to lack a bunch of stuff that might be in say
SRD 12.2.33 or SXH 12.2.33 like MPLS TE or further IP6 features.

Sometimes Juniper's supposedly unified feature set across all devices seems
like it might have benefits for easing product selection in terms of
hardware rather than fighting for software / hardware combinations.  Or is
that actually a strategy?


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