[c-nsp] CRS-3: FC140/S, FP140 & 14X10GBE (Emanuel Popa)

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Андрей Нуштаев wrote on 11/04/2011 13:49:
> Hi, Emanuel.
>
> Hope that information will be still usefull for you.
>
> a. FP140/MSC40 works well together.
> b. Unfortunately, I didn't use 3rd party XFP.
> c. No problem with IOS-XR 4.0.1-px on P router (ISIS/LDP) and AS border
> router (BGP IPv4/IPv6).
> d. No support of L3/L2 VPN forwarding when you have FP140 card in the
> current version (4.0.1), no QoS support per subinterface for FP140
> (including classification/remarking).
>    

Is the note about unsupported qos features on subinterfaces documented 
somewhere?

--
Tassos

> Andrey
>
> From: Emanuel Popa<emanuel.popa at gmail.com>
>    
>> To: Cisco Mailing list<cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:05:54 +0200
>> Subject: [c-nsp] CRS-3: FC140/S, FP140&  14X10GBE
>> hi everybody,
>>
>> we will soon upgrade our 16 slot CRS-1 to CRS-3, which means going
>> from 40Gbps/slot to 140Gbps/slot. afterwards, we will install a couple
>> of 14X10GBE PLIMs with FP140 in the back. this will grant us more 10GE
>> ports in an almost full chassis.
>>
>> anyways, this process comes with high adrenaline level and huge risk
>> because we have to carry out the upgrade in several steps:
>>
>> 1. upgrade from IOS XR 3.8.4 to IOS XR 4.0.1-px with downtime
>>
>> 2. upgrade fabric from FC40/S to FC140/S without downtime
>>
>> 3. migrate 10GE ports from 8-10GBE/MSC40 cards to 14X10GBE/FP140 cards
>>
>> we are concerned about quite a few things:
>>
>> a. how will the mix of MSC40 and FP140 within the same chassis work out?
>>
>> b. one of the datasheets we found about the new PLIMs says:
>>
>> "The XFP power dissipation is different for each vendor and range.
>> Cisco Transceiver
>> Module Group has released new "-L" class XFPs, XFP10GLR-192SR-L (10km) and
>> XFP10GER-192IR-L (40km), for low power and low EMI to coincide with CRS-3
>> PLIMs. They are 1.5W and 2.5W respectively and the only 10km and 40km XFP
>> types
>> supported on CRS-3 XGE PLIMs. Standard XFPs like XFP10GLR-192SR are not
>> supported on the CRS-3 XGE PLIMs. There is a strict UDI compliance check
>> when an
>> XFP is inserted or the LC has booted with XFPs. Non-supported XFPs
>> won’t be powered
>> on."
>>
>> we only use 3rd party optics, of course. just curious if anybody has
>> experience with these PLIMs and the optics that work with them.
>>
>> c. what about the new IOS XR 4.0.1-px? did anybody ran into any kind
>> of problems regarding a P router with this version?
>>
>> d. anything else that might be helpful with the new hardware above?
>>
>> thanks in advance and best regards,
>> manu
>>
>>
>>      
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