[c-nsp] Carrier grade NAT44 & newest Cisco boxes

[Andy Bourges]

Hi,

On Tuesday 13 March 2012 16:01:10 Ruslan Pustovoitov wrote:
> > Card is occupied full slot in chassis and costs about 200.000$ in GPL
> > with license for 10 miilion sessions.
> > I know that other vendors with more ancient NATs has double
> > performance for this price.
> > 
> > Also, I look in CGSE blade for CRS-1 and CRS-3 platform.
> > Presentation says it has 10 Gbit/s full-duplex performance and card
> > occupy one slot.
> > Does it meen that CGN in CRS more powerfull that CGN in ASR9k or this
> > is the sort of marketing game ?

...the CGSE can hold up to 20 mio concurrent nat sessions and multiple blades 
can be installed in one CRS-1. I thought the ISE for asr9k is more or less 
identical to the CGSE (at least it's based on the same code), so it might be a 
marketing decision to allow only 10mio sessions.

regards,

Andy