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

[Mark Tinka]

On 24/Jan/19 21:12, James Jun wrote:

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

I don't think that's a good-enough reason to oust the box. It's a bug
that "can" be fixed. Focus should be on getting Cisco to see that it's
not unreasonable to expect a network to not reboot a router every so
often to "clear things up", and that high uptime should be expected.


>
> 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.

I've been talking to Juniper about this very thing - to launch an
MX204-lite, if you will, which focuses on 24 - 48 1Gbps/10Gbps ports,
and 40Gbps/100Gbps uplink ports. If they can manage this, then Cisco
have a worthy competitor in this space.

Here's to hoping they listen; I mean, I only started talking them about
this back in 2007, what could go wrong :-)...

Mark.