[c-nsp] ASR9001 Vs ASR1006

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:09:47PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
> But what is possible and what is commercially viable are not same
> things. It's pretty logical for vendors to avoid R&D on technology
> which they don't want to sell and instead move those finite R&D
> resources on technology which they want to sell.

Why wouldn't Cisco want to sell more ASR9001?  They are filling a given
market niche extremely well - and they have nothing else which fits
that role.

So, unless they do something like an ASR9002 in "all tomahawk" for the
same price(!!), abandoning 9001 doesn't make sense at all.  Making 
the "all tomahawk" 900x more powerful and more expensive would make
it leave the niche where it's needed by the medium-sized ISPs (those
that are happy to have 10G links to upstreams and IXPs, and where
those 10G links or 20G bundles will be sufficient for a few years
to come).

Just looking at the used hardware market for ASR9001 underlines this
very clearly - it's almost impossible to find ASR9001 for prices that
are not close to "project discount" prices.

gert
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