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

[Mark Tinka]

On 13/Jul/15 17:44, James Jun wrote:
> 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.

There is still a lot of opportunity in this space.

But with the AR920, Cisco have opened the door to new architectures that
could make it feasible to stick a sufficient number of 1Gbps/10Gbps
ports in a 1U chassis for a reasonable price.

And no, no Broadcom chipsets, please...


> Yep, I mean it's a QFX 5100.

Yep.

>   Cisco ASR 9xx are certainly more better suited IMO for edge applications.

Agree, although the ASR920/ME3600X is more my thing, as I'm more
Ethernet-centric without all the modularity or mobile-ness.

Mark.