[c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

[Mark Tinka]

On 2/23/23 19:20, Brian Turnbow wrote:
> They also seem to want to follow the same route in metro with the NCS540s and this global bandwidth licensing bucket.
> You want to turn up 2x100 and 24*10 on a box?
> Buy 44 "essential right to use v1 for 10g" and all the shabangs that come with it that renew every 3 years...
> Not so low cost anymore.
> They sold/sell warehouses  full of MEs/asr920s to providers yet seem to want to alienate the market ...
>
> A shame

Apart from IOS XR being such a fat OS for us in the Metro, it's one of 
the many reasons we rejected their offer to swap out the ASR920 with the 
NCS540.

Cisco have lost the plot, IMHO. Every solution at every level of the 
network is now a bulldozer searching for a tiny nail to hammer.

Mark.