[c-nsp] ASR 1002 vs ISR 3945

[Jeff Bacon]

Depending on the level of QoS you need, sounds like something most any
L3 switch would handle fine, assuming it's an Ethernet handoff (which it
sounds like). If you don't care about an occasional buffer overrun, even
a 3560G will do you. Get really fancy and use a 6524, and it's prolly
still cheaper than your ASR. (If you can find one; my guy says there's a
total of 7 in stock in the entire world. There were 8, until I bought
one....) Or use anything in between.

-bacon

> Hi List,
> 
> Need to see what folks that are running ASR's out there think about
> them in the following scenario....
> 
> Datacenter A  ------------------------------  Datacenter B
> 
> Between the 2 sites will be a 200mb (1 Gigabit burstable) link. How
> far will
> the 3945 take me (as far as going up to a gig of traffic with the
> below
> features) with the fastest processor board or should I even go
> there?? There
> will also be a learning curve with IOS XE, but if it fits the bill
> better
> the the 3945, we'll go that route.
> 
> Features that are necessary...
> 
> 200mb non-encrypted traffic to start (possibly ramped up to 1gb
> over the
> next 12 months)
> QoS
> BGP (Non internet tables)
> IGP
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