[c-nsp] edge router BGP

[Geoffrey Pendery]

As Justin mentioned it's hardware forwarding.  This is mostly a good
thing, and the QFP's will do lots of stuff in hardware, but at least
so far they won't do NBAR HTTP URLs.  Probably not a feature you use
or care about, but there might be another such stray gotcha.  Just
double-check that each of your current software features are supported
in the ASR hardware...


-Geoff


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Justin Shore<justin at justinshore.com> wrote:
> Mark Tinka wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking more, ASR1000 series. Will do wire rate, has a large enough
>> control plane to handle multiple full tables to customers, is the natural
>> progression from the 7200-VXR platform, e.t.c.
>
> I second (third?) the ASR 1002 suggestion.  @ list price the 5Gbps ASR 1002
> is only a few $k more than the 7206VXR w/ the NPE-G2 or the 7201. It has 5x
> the backplane to boot plus it's hardware forwarding.  The only real downside
> IMHO is that the unit uses SPAs which require SmartNets per SPA (per license
> and per a lot of other things for that matter too).  Still it's a much
> better box for a little bit more up front.  I plan on replacing my 7206
> border routers with ASR 1002 or 1004s when the time comes.
>
> Justin
>
>
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