[c-nsp] LNS Alternatives

[Pshem Kowalczyk]

Hi,

On Mon, 23 May 2016 at 21:04 CiscoNSP List <CiscoNSP_list at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Cheers James - We need them all(5), as our POPs are geographically VERY
> far apart lol......majority of our customers are eth based, and use DSL as
> either redundant link, or where eth/fibre not
> available.......unfortunately, they make a HUGE noise re latency(They are
> VERY latency conscious!)  when we tried a single LNS setup...i.e. All DSL
> tails terminating on the one LNS.....as an example, 2 sites, 1 kilometre
> apart, latency was over 120m/sec..if we had an LNS at that POP, latency
> would have been 30ish....hard pill to swallow, but when the noisy customers
> are spending lots of $ with you, it's best to keep them happy.
>
> Regarding features and the "X" range...Ive played a bit now with our Lab
> 1006, and yes, definitely some "challenging"(insane!) differences between
> them and the 7200....geez the stupid no compression thing,  some reply
> attributes cause the ASR to use full VAI, which causes it to fail also, qos
> pre-classify under virt template also causes ASR to use full VAI(Again,
> causes it to fail).....damn, Cisco loved making the transition from
> 7200->ASR an easy one lol......Are there even more things I need to be
> aware of with the old 1001 vs the 1001-X series?(From your e-mail, sounds
> like there is?)
>
> Thanks very much for your notes+links....Ill be reading them tonight :)
>

If they are so far apart then why not use a simple PWE3  device (whatever
suits your needs) and bring the traffic back to a central site(s) where the
ASR1k is? Do you do a lot of local traffic switching between the DSL tails?

kind regards
Pshem