[c-nsp] carrier router models comparison

[Justin C. Darby]

To chime in a little bit here on the bleeding edge comments - we jumped 
on the Nexus 7K pretty early on (shortly after GA), as we would 
otherwise have spent about as much investing in new 6500's, our budget 
wasn't going to allow for replacing equipment for at least 5 years, and 
we were jumping on 10 Gigabit storage/LAN at this site so it had a clear 
advantage for us.

NX-OS has got its share of bugs, but the switch has never failed 
outright to do its job and it forwards packets as configured for us, 
though we were quite aware it was a good idea to keep its initial 
deployment pretty simple and we spent a couple months building up the 
configuration and testing.

I don't know how much you'd want to throw an ASR9000 into wide-area 
deployment immediately, but if you have a need it addresses well, I 
don't see why you couldn't get it to work based on my experience with 
the other Cisco bleeding edge OS (and probably a little bit of pre-sales 
engineering to go over your design).

Of course, the documentation for NX-OS pre-launch was amazingly well 
organized. But, different business unit, I guess. I haven't done more 
than glance at the XR docs but things seem very similar to NX-OS docs, 
which is pretty good compared to the old IOS docs that are scattered 
everywhere.

Justin

P.S. This message contains personal comments and should not be 
considered an endorsement of the US Federal Government. :)

Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 04:28:26 pm Emanuel Popa wrote:
>
>   
>> i'm really scared when using a fairly new platform with a
>> fairly new software version.
>>     
>
> Agree. I think the ASR9000 code is quite new.
>
> As you say, documentation is scarce, but I'm not sure IOS XR 
> is prime time for typical edge services (and more). Heck, 
> we're still trying to let the ASR1000 catch up :-).
>
> The 7200 has set quite a benchmark, but then again, the joys 
> of doing things in hardware, new boxes, new code, e.t.c.
>
> Mark.
>
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