[c-nsp] ASR 920 Replacement

[Łukasz Bromirski]

> On 27 Jun 2019, at 17:53, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> 
> On 27/Jun/19 17:49, Łukasz Bromirski wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Putting my Cisco hat for a moment:
>> 
>> There are currently no such plans, but the natural current replacement
>> would
>> be NCS 540 (IOS-XR box) and NCS 560 (XR box as well, more alike
>> ASR 903/907 if you need modularity).
> 
> I don't know why for a Metro-E application, IOS XR is simply too
> heavy... maybe it's just me.
> 
> I've not ran IOS XR in anything other than a CRS or ASR9000, so can't
> say whether it's any quicker in an NCS*. But if not, I wouldn't want to
> be the one speaking to the NOC about why 700 boxes in the Metro are down
> for longer than what we had on an ASR920 (IOS XE) for a simple code
> upgrade :-).

:D “Good old days of solid iron with QNX-running XR”.

NCS 540 boots in ~90 seconds depending on the complexity of the
configuration. I just did reboot one to check if I’m right.

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