[c-nsp] ME3600 migration to something with more 10 gig ports

[James Jun]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid that if you're looking for anything with dense 10Gbps ports
> for customer services with features, form factor and price points of the
> ASR920/ME3600X from Cisco, you'll be hard-pressed.

You could also look into ASR 903 with RSP2A-128; max it out with IMA-2Z cards to get 12x 10GE without oversubbing.  Certainly not at the price of 920's, but definitely beats 9001.

> 
> Juniper's ACX5000 units are multi-rate systems. Only problem is there
> are Broadcom chipsets in there. Okay for most applications, but you may
> hit fundamental issues that software can't rectify. That is why we
> dropped our consideration for them.

Yep, I mean it's a QFX 5100.  Cisco ASR 9xx are certainly more better suited IMO for edge applications.


james