[c-nsp] ASR920 vs NCS5000

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> Daniel Serane
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:47 AM
> 
> > Don't know what you mean be "lighter". ASR900 is a family with
> > different RSP generations and different platforms, so its hard to make a
> comparison.
> 
> And all those different ASR900s with different RSPs have totally different
> features?
> Is there a reasonable slide to show the major differences? Sounds painful
to
> figure it out.
> 

Cisco live on-demand library is a good starting point: 
https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/search.ww 
 - just search for "920" and it will return two presentations (although I
was expecting more than just 2 presos on these),  there are some comparisons
as well as scaling numbers. 

Well there are only 3 branches in ASR900 family tree as far as I know, 
900 Series (902 & 903), 
920 Series, 
901 Series, 
but yes I guess it's fair to say they are very different to each other. 

Regarding the NCS5k(or QFX counterpart), the same rule apply as always,
there's a reason why these are so darn cheap compared to high-end
platforms(like e.g. NCS6k), there are architectural sacrifices that were
made during the platform development resulting in numerous limitations and
only once all these are understood the device can be considered for a given
environment. 
  
adam


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