[c-nsp] Peering Router/Switch

[Josh Baird]

I believe the MX104 can do ~1.8 in FIB, and ~8mil in RIB.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:42 PM, James Jun <james at towardex.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 02:37:36PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >
> > Another reason I wouldn't spend money on an MX80.
> >
> > Even though the MX104 is a PPC-based platform, I'm okay to spend money
> > on that because the RE is modular.
> >
> > Mark.
>
> Honestly, I like the ASR 9001 lot better than MX 104.
>
> I was somewhat dissapointed with MX104 when it came out; I was hoping it'd
> do more bandwidth than MX80's 80 Gbps to get a couple more 10G ports out of
> it; but it's practically MX80 on chassis form...and then we have craptastic
> and overpriced RE that rivals Sup720 on BGP convergence.
>
> Also, doesn't the MX104 have the same 256MB RLDRAM as MX80 (like mpc1), so
> you can only do up to ~1 to ~1.5M IPv4 routes max in FIB? or has this been
> improved on the MX104?
>
> ASR 9001 on the other hand.. 120 Gbps in a 2U box and control-plane
> performance is plenty fast (feels like RSP440), and up to 4M IPv4 in FIB so
> it has longer life expectancy in DFZ.  Also, you can start with ASR-9001-S
> (60 Gbps license-locked version) to cheap out, and then upgrade to full 120
> Gbps later. The upgrade license cost is not penalizing as buying MX104/MX80
> upgrade licenses.  You pretty much pay for the difference.
>
> Best,
> james
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