[c-nsp] Good edge routers for Transit connections?

[Antoine Monnier]

I think the 10Gig ports also need to be enabled through a license.


On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Scott Granados <scott at granados-llc.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I’m looking at the Cisco web site and trying to figure which direction to
> go in to for a multi home access project I have coming up.  The goal will
> be to terminate 2 carriers with full BGP feeds each providing 2 1G
> connections from diverse data centers and announce a small number of
> blocks.  I’m thinking about the following config and wonder if anyone has
> any comments or better suggestions for hardware configurations.
>
> Cisco ASR-1001X with Route Processor 2 w/ 8GB of ram.
> seems to have 6 1G ports and 2 10G ports for uplinks.  I’m thinking about
> this unit *2 eating taking 2 of the 4 connections, uplinked via 10G and
> connected with IBGP.  HSRP enabled on the inside interfaces.
>
> Anyone have any complaints or positive things to say about these units or
> suggest something more appropriate.  I would enable the maximum throughput
> via licensing although 20G is probably a lot more than I need at this stage.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
>
> Thank you
> Scott
>
>
>
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