[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus as MetroE switch?

[Adam Vitkovsky]

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        Adam Vitkovsky
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-----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
> James Jun
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 2:38 AM
> To: Gavin McBride
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus as MetroE switch?
>
> >
> > Looked at the usual suspects e.g. Cisco ME3600X/ME3800X, ASR920, as
> > well as Juniper EX4550 and QFX5100.
>
> Have you looked at the new developments to ASR 900 Series (902/903 and
> the new 907)?
>
> Cisco recently released RSP3 and 8x10GE and 1x100GE IMA cards.  RSP3 and
> 8x10GE IMA pricing aren't too shabby.  If you fully load an ASR 902 with 8x10G
> IMAs, that'll give you some serious port density in 2U with extensive feature-
> rich MetroE features.

Yeah 900 series are full blown carrier grade routers (well yeah the fan tray but nothing's perfect).
And finally with A900-RSP3C-400-S my prayers have been heard out and they made it as Large Scale (128k routes is a decent headroom).
I think that with RSP3 Cisco won the game clearly.
Really it's like ASR9K-minime.

adam