[c-nsp] IPv4/v6 Route Reflectors - Which router to choose?

McDonald Richards mcdonald.richards at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 00:28:56 EDT 2010


The 1002-F has the RP1 PPC based CPU - for the speed you really really want
the RP2 based x86 64 bit CPUs. They are FAST. Route reflectors are such a
critical network function that this is not a place I'd be looking to save
money in a large network deployment.

McDonald


On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>wrote:

> On Saturday 12 June 2010 07:20:51 pm Łukasz Bromirski wrote:
>
> > But ASR1k is currently the fastest and most scalable RR
> >  available commercially. Equipped with RP2 and 16GB of
> >  RAM it can scale up to around 29M prefixes in IPv4 table
> >  if FIB selective download is used.
>
> True, but these come only on the modular versions of the
> ASR1000 series, i.e., the ASR1004 and ASR1006.
>
> Personally, I find these too large and expensive for this
> role. The ASR1002-F should have been the better option, but
> that's only 4GB (which isn't bad, actually).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>


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