[c-nsp] BGP router upgrade

[Pete Lumbis]

> Bottom line, I would under no situation ever consider NPE-G[12] for forwarding
> Internet peering traffic (wording chosen carefully:). And I have lot of love
> for them.
>
A completely fair statement, it all comes down to throughput
requirements. A hardware based platform will always beat the pants off
of a software based platform, but when you talk about control plane
flexibility and reducing your odds for forwarding problems, software
is the way to go.