[c-nsp] ASR vs 6807

[Andrew Miehs]

The 6800 is a l3 switch. The ASR9k is a full blown router.
 
If you need to connect to non Ethernet circuits you will need a router. If you want real qos you will need a router.

How far are the DCs apart?

Inter dc l2 is never a great idea if it can be avoided.

You may also want to look at the qfx51000

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> On 27 Nov 2014, at 22:05, R LAS <dim0sal at hotmail.com> 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
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