[c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

[Simon Lockhart]

In simple terms (and I apologise if this is fixed in Sup2T, as most of my
experience has been on the Sup720), with the 6500/6800 platform, you can only
do port-to-port or subint-to-subint VPWS, but not port-to-subint (which you can
on the more capable boxes, or with the ES cards on the 6500/6800).  

Simon

On Thu Nov 27, 2014 at 11:05:18AM +0000, R LAS wrote:
> Hi Simon
> can you detail more "ASR9k can be more flexible on EoMPLS (VPLS) than 6807" ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:26:55 +0000
> > From: simon at slimey.org
> > To: dim0sal at hotmail.com
> > CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807
> > 
> > On Thu Nov 27, 2014 at 10:18:41AM +0000, R LAS wrote:
> > > Discussing a new architecture of DCI (Data Center Interconnection), Cisco
> > > raccomends both ASR9k and 6807.  The architecture requested by the customer
> > > forecast MPLS/VPLS supported by DCI.
> > > 
> > > From pricing point of view there is a quite big difference (win 6807), from
> > > feature point of view Cisco says the difference is "only" the number of
> > > mac-addresses supported and the sw modularity.
> > > 
> > > Can anybody help in digging more the "technical" difference ?
> > 
> > I'm going through much the same at the moment, and settling on 6807, largely
> > from a price perspective.
> > 
> > ASR9k is (today) a more capable box for routing - particularly if you want
> > higher bandwidths. ASR9k has 100G ports today. 6807 only has 40G. ASR9k can
> > be more flexible on EoMPLS (VPLS) than 6807.
> > 
> > 6807 has a lot of potential (880G per slot), but it's not supported by either
> > Supervisors or Linecards that are available today (current limit is 80G/slot).
> > 
> > Simon
>  		 	   		  
-- 
Simon Lockhart |   * Server Co-location * ADSL * Domain Registration *
   Director    |  * Domain & Web Hosting * Connectivity * Consultancy * 
  Bogons Ltd   | *  http://www.bogons.net/  *  Email: info at bogons.net  *