[c-nsp] ASR920 vs ASR1001-x

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:35:39PM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> Interesting - one of our local Cisco distributors, in a meeting with us
> and with Cisco people present, repeatedly called ASR920 a Layer 3 switch.
> With no protest from the Cisco representatives.

Given that it can only do routing if you feed it a L3 license, it definitely
looks switchy to me :-)

OTOH, the boundaries are truly floating today - what is a 6500/sup720,
what is an ASR9000?  I'd call the first one a switch, and the second one
a router, even if the ASR9000 can do more ethernet switching tricks than
the 6500...

The traditional way to decide is "price".  And that definitely makes the
ASR920 a switch, and the ASR9000 a router :-)

gert
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