[c-nsp] Cisco 8000

[Brian Knight]

We’re about to get a few of these boxes in our shop. One limitation of these units is no modular PSUs, and the AC model is limited to one power input. (The DC model, the model we chose, has two internal PSUs.) We’ll see if the feature set is similar to the rest of the line.

-Brian

> On Dec 15, 2019, at 8:17 AM, Shawn L <shawn at rmrf.us> wrote:
> 
> There is a new 920, the ASR-920-12SZ with 12 10/1 gid ports.  I think it's
> a move in the right direction, but I agree, some faster uplink ports would
> be nice.
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 2:00 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12/Dec/19 16:17, James Jun wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I agree that ASR-9901 (Starlord) was not the strong response the market
>> was looking for from Cisco, but they had to go to war with what they had
>> available at the time (Tomahawk/EZchip NP). This meant MX204 competition
>> with twice the HW footprint, much higher power draw, etc :-p
>> 
>> Same discussion I had with them 2 weeks ago. The 9901 isn't really an
>> answer to the MX204.
>> 
>> Ultimately, I'd like to see an ASR920-10G, which gives us 12 - 24 ports
>> of 1/10Gbps, with 4x 10Gbps and/or 2x 100Gbps uplinks, running IOS XE. I
>> think a box like this would be more competitive than the MX204 for
>> Metro-E deployments where customers need 10Gbps last mile in the Access.
>> 
>> We'll see if they listen.
>> 
>> Mark.
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