[c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

[Shawn L]

That's one of the major reasons we're sticking with the ASR920 in metro
deployments for all it's faults.  They do silly license stuff on the 12SZ
(no bulk, make all the 10G ports work license) but once you figure out
their quirks they do work quite well.

We did just receive a 9901 (purchased 6 months ago).  It seems nice but
again, licensing.  Want to put more than 120G worth of optics, add a
license.  And reboot.  Really, reboot?  That just seems silly in this day
and age.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:32 PM Mark Tinka via cisco-nsp <
cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
>
> 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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