[c-nsp] NCS500 series

[Chris Welti]

Hi Adam,

The NCS540 has a Broadcom Qumran AX chipset with 3GB deep buffers. Smaller brother of the Qumran MX used in the NCS5501-SE.
There should be a model coming with 4x100G around Q3 this year, which will make it a great successor for the ASR920, especially since it has deep buffers.
(The ASR920 has only a few MBs which has proven an issue for 10G -> 1G conversion if not carefully carved with a QOS policy-map)
No practical experience yet, just arrived a few days ago.
It's smart licensing only, a bit tricky to figure out what exactly you'll need.
Especially since the current SW doesn't seem to enforce/check any of it.

Best regards,
Chris

On 09.04.19 00:47, adamv0025 at netconsultings.com wrote:
> Looks like NCS540 is the new kid on the block to replace the asr920 and
> NCS560 seem to be replacing the asr903 now?
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> Anyone have any experiences good or bad with these platforms please?
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> Documentation says Full SW feature parity with NCS 5500, but what about the
> HW parity? Didn't find out the exact type of Broadcom chips used in these.
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