[c-nsp] C8200/Spitfire/Pacific

[Chris Welti]

Can't report from production, but we have a 8201-32FH (Q200/Gibraltar) in the lab
right now. Currently considering it as a successor for 400G deployments
where we had NCS55A1-24H for 100G before.
So far so good for our use case as a basic PE. (unicast/multicast v4/v6, OSPFv2/v3, BGP, MPLS for L2VPN VPLS/EoMPLS only, access ACLs)
Our needed feature set is very limited, without QoS, VRFs, MPLS TE, SR or SRv6, so can't comment on any of those features.

Overall it seems it has more features and less limitations than the Jericho+ in the NCS55A1-24H, e.g. v6 egress ACLs work, support for flowspec, uRPF allow-default.
My hope is that due to Cisco not depending on Broadcom and their SDK in those chips that there will be less limitations and quicker fixes than in their Jericho products, but who knows.
Otherwise seems pretty similar to Jericho2 products, except its less power hungry.

--
Chris

On 06.03.22 08:41, Saku Ytti wrote:
> Yellow,
>
> The box has been out for quite some time now, but I've not heard much
> from the community. I don't even know anyone else but 1299 who operate
> it.
>
> I'd very much like to hear from anyone who is running the device in
> production about their experience with it, even if the experience is
> just 'i configured it, we run features xyz, seems to work'. Or if you
> specifically decided not to run it, why not?
>
> I know there is a Juniper commissioned test report comparing Pacific
> to Triton, but obviously we know that the commissioning party will
> always win the test.
>
> Thank you!