[c-nsp] Cisco Friends

[Mark Tinka]

On 8/4/25 14:16, Gert Doering wrote:

> Are IOS XR upgrades still such a pain today?  (We never moved to XR64,
> and all I know is ASR9001, where the fastest way to do major upgrades
> still is "turbo boot" with 2+ hours of downtime...)
>
> This is one of the nice bits about IOS, IOS XE, EOS, etc. - "upload one
> image onto the box, reload, upgrade done" (and on EOS, the flash is
> actually fast enough to make the "upload" really use available bandwidth
> to the box...)

It's the main reason we stayed away from the NCS540 as a replacement for 
the ASR920. Couldn't imagine deploying IOS XR upgrades across hundreds 
of Metro-E nodes.

Mark.