[c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

[Phil Bedard]

The original question was around an Internet border router with 10G support.   We have devices like the 55A2-MOD-SE which is similar to some other vendor devices (somewhat of a reference Broadcom design) which we’ve seen be very popular in border router deployments where you do not need a ton of bandwidth.

XRd runs in a container with very little memory, it doesn’t always have to be “fat”.   In fact some of the smaller 540 systems have very little RP memory.

Thanks,
Phil

From: cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> on behalf of Mark Tinka via cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 12:32 PM
To: Brian Turnbow <b.turnbow at twt.it>, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences


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.
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