[c-nsp] ASR920 is a ticking timebomb (CSCvk35460)

[James Jun]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 06:53:15PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
> 
> You could really blow my mind and PROACTIVELY reach out to such a
> customer and say "Hay, you're going to get hit by a nasty bug soon,
> lets work together; You let me grab some debug info from your router
> to try and fine the root cause, then you can schedule a proactive
> maintenance window to reboot/upgrade/burn your router to avoid the
> impact WE KNOW you're going to have" - instead of just watching it
> happen and not capatalising on the data avilable to you.
>

We have over 50 ASR920s sitting above 2 years uptime and getting close to hitting
this ticking time bomb soon, so I am really not looking forward to this (gah!).

May be this is good time to re-hash discussion about replacing ASR920s with 
something else for 1GE aggregation.

Is anybody using NCS540 today as L2CKT PE's (terminating L2CKT PWs on the box)?
Is it working well for you?


Alternatively, it would be nice if Cisco would make a light replacement version of
ASR-9001 (or don't EOL it :P) so we can keep using them to replace ASR920s for 1GE
aggregation using 20x1GE MPAs.

We have a few ASR9901s in 1GE aggregation role, but between how power-hungry it is
(takes over 500W from the get go, and PSU is rated for 1.1kW) and how huge and heavy
it is (54 lbs and this box is as deep as QFX10002!), it's an annoying box to install out
in the field.  I am not seeing the 9901 as an easy replacement for ASR9001 in 1GE
aggregation role out in COs and small data centers MMRs, etc.


I hear that Juniper is coming out with a different configuration of MX204 with lot of
1GE/10GE SFP+ based ports?  This sounds very exciting to me.. anyone got any details/timeline/etc?
The power requirement of MX204 is very good and the box is really easy to install at 
small sites.

James