[c-nsp] Cisco N540-ACC-SYS ipv4 routes

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 10:11 PM
> To: adamv0025 at netconsultings.com; 'Łukasz Bromirski'
> <lukasz at bromirski.net>
> Cc: 'cisco-nsp NSP' <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco N540-ACC-SYS ipv4 routes
> 
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> On 15/Jul/20 19:45, adamv0025 at netconsultings.com wrote:
> 
> > Wanna bet which one of the two will be cheaper? (the new upcoming
> > PTX10k1 vs 8201)
> > - also will be interesting to compare flex license options on both.
> 
> You can get flexible licensing on the PTX1000 today, where the 72x ports are
> sold in chunks of 18x per license.
> 
> Currently, the 8201 is very closely priced to the PTX1000. The problem is the
> 8201 supports only 12x 100Gbps ports, while the PTX1000 can deliver 24x
> 100Gbps, 
You should be able to break out the 24x400G ports on 8201 to 96x100G ports (plus the 12x100G native),
 
>in addition hundreds of 10Gbps ports (which the
> 8201 cannot support).
> 
Comparing PTX1000 to 8201 is comparing apples and oranges. There's 7Tbps difference between these.
PTX1000 is not 100G optimized (only PTX10K series are).
I meant the upcoming PTX10k which should be directly comparable with 8201, we'll see. 

adam