[c-nsp] ASR opinions..

[Mark Tinka]

On Sunday, August 21, 2011 08:28:22 AM John Elliot wrote:

> Hi, Looking at the 1002's

We like the ASR1002's, but while we haven't used them in a 
broadband aggregation role, we find the RP1 very slow, 
particularly when saving configurations and such. But then 
again, the ASR1002's RP is a fixed unit inside the chassis 
and can't be upgraded.

I'd also suggest not enabling the software redundancy for 
IOS. This essentially uses up all available memory and will 
eventually cause the router to crash and reboot. Since we 
buy the ASR1002's and operate them in physically redundant 
chassis' doing the same thing, we can do without the 
software redundancy. I expect the ASR1004's to have the same 
problem, which is why we never buy them and either go for 
the ASR1002 or ASR1006 or higher. The ASR1006 and above will 
offer hardware-based control plane redundancy.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Mark.
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