[c-nsp] ASR opinions..

[McDonald Richards]

> We have some 7201's in the edge that could have been changed
> to ASR1001's, but this 512,000 FIB entry limitation is a
> real PITA.

Can you provide a source for this information please? To my knowledge this
is not true as the 1001 has the Intel RP1.5...

McDonald



On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>wrote:

> On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:46:27 PM Matt Moor wrote:
>
> > To my eye, the ASR1001 looks like a better option now
> > that it's available - it's an intel based platform (ala
> > RP2), albeit less powerful (Core Duo vs Xeon), with
> > something like the equivalent of an ESP5 inside it.
> > Talking to a few Cisco folk about it seriously (a few
> > months ago) more or less confirmed this. The 1002F
> > apparently had some market pressure driving it to
> > availability before RP2 was ready to go, and the 1001
> > very much "feels" like an RP2 version of it (for those
> > of us in the Ethernet world, anyhoo).
> >
> > I left the company before we ended up deploying some, but
> > the due diligence had born out to that point.
>
> Agree that the ASR1001 is certainly excellent on paper. We
> run 7201's as route reflectors here since 2008, and we're
> very happy that we're considering the ASR1001's as a
> potential replacement. It's just that the ASR1001 will only
> install 512,000 entries into the FIB, and we're not yet sure
> what a control-plane only router (route reflector role) will
> do when we exceed this maximum. In theory, there shouldn't
> be any issue since decisions are made in the RIB first.
>
> We have some 7201's in the edge that could have been changed
> to ASR1001's, but this 512,000 FIB entry limitation is a
> real PITA.
>
> The ASR1001 is on the right track, now we just need Cisco to
> fix that FIB issue, although something tells me they won't
> for fear of displacing the larger boxes in this series.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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