[c-nsp] ASR9001 Vs ASR1006

[Saku Ytti]

On 17 May 2016 at 18:32, Lukas Tribus <luky-37 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Tomahawk, RSP880 at least will run 64b when IOS-XR 6.1 ships. And they
won't make you throw it away, both 32b and 64b will be supported in
parallel, but how long 1 year? 2 years?
Obviously it'll be increasingly difficult internally to do things in
the 32b image.

> 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.

Typhoon is 32b Freescale CPU. (Trident was already dropped on 6.0.1).

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