[c-nsp] ME3800X/ME3600X/ME3600X-24CX/ASR903/ASR901 Deployment Simplification Feedback

[Tom Hill]

On 17/11/15 11:05, Mark Tinka wrote:
> The other point, for me, is making sure easy ring topologies you would
> build on the ME3600X/ASR920 using IP/MPLS can be replicated using
> satellites. There will be a temptation not to build satellites as
> point-to-point, but rather, as rings, and you don't want to find
> yourself caught out.

This is where satellites fall down for me, also. You're dealing with a
remote line card, rather than an access "network".

Regardless of the cost implications of running your nV uplinks around in
a diverse metro ring (euw?) you're still only going to gain uplink
resilience via ASR9k clustering... And unless ASR9k clustering has some
magic that I'm missing, systemic failures (or configuration cock-ups) of
the entire cluster, are not something I want to have to worry about.

-- 
Tom