[c-nsp] ASR9001 Vs ASR1006

[Lukas Tribus]

> On 17 May 2016 at 16:21, Lukas Tribus <luky-37 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> It the same exact image from 9001 to 9912 series (ASR9K-iosxr-px-*), same
>> checksum. What would be a non-legacy XR platform running a 64 bit
>> control plane today?
>
> None. But after 6.1 it is possible. Based on experience with Cisco and
> other vendors, once new platform is out it becomes progressively
> harder for Cisco to internally allocate resources to work on the old
> platform as it won't directly enable new sales.
> This means I would personally not buy any channel 32b XR kit today.

I see your point, however since there is no 64 bit XR kit available today,
I'm quite confident Cisco won't make us throw away the entire XR/SP
gear currently supported, that would be huge freakin' mistake.

I don't see a reason why we could not upgrade the existing Intel
based XR gear (typhoon/tomahawk) from 32bit QNX to 64bit
Linux, other than increased memory usage.

The actual kernel upgrade is not a sales argument anyway.


Regards,

Lukas