[c-nsp] ASR920 Opinions

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

James Jun wrote on 20/12/2017 3:52 πμ:
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> The Bad Stuff:
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>   - FAT-PW is not supported on ASR920s, and last I checked, is not even on the roadmap.  ASR90x (902, 903, 907)
>     with RSP-3C have FAT-PW support starting with Everest release SW.
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>     Long story short, ASR920 is meant to aggregate 1GE end-users.  The built-in 4x10GE ports are really meant to
>     form uplink ring architecture; not for customer facing ports by design.. I think.  Lack of FAT-PW makes
>     terminating burstable 10G customer interface for IP backhaul extremely undesirable.
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> James

We have been asking continuously for FAT-PW support on the ASR920, even 
in only one direction (on the receive side) where no special hw should 
be required for traffic inspection, but Cisco has been reluctant on 
implementing this.

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