[c-nsp] edge router BGP

[Justin Shore]

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:20:50PM -0500, Justin Shore wrote:
>> 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). 
> 
> Uh.  Could you elaborate on that?  Especially the "per-license and a lot
> of other things" bit?
> 
> We have no ASR1k yet, but if something like the ES20 "extra license for
> IPv6 *per ES20 card*" is going to come back, this would be a strong reason
> to finally go to the Vendor J camp.

You can see the prices in the Dynamic Config Tool on cisco.com when you 
build an ASR.  I just built a 1002 in the DCT as an example.  I added a 
couple SPAs and licenses.  On the summary page there are SmartNet line 
items for:

ESP
Chassis
IOS SW Redundancy Right-to-Use License
Crypto Right-to-Use License
Each SPA
And the IOS itself

So for a $95k chassis @ list I have $5800 in SmartNets (8x5xNBD) @ list 
per year.

Fire away...
  Justin