[f-nsp] MLXe-4 vs ASR1006 vs MX80

[Drew Weaver]

On 26/04/2011 13:23, Drew Weaver wrote:
> Has anyone seen any bake offs, or side by side comparisons between the
> MLXe-4, ASR1006 or the MX80?
>
> I am trying to pick a router for a small regional DC and these seem
> attractive but I don't know all of the caveats and subtleties.

MLXe-4: 400G backplane, 1m ipv4 prefixes, far faster than either the 
ASR1006 or the MX80, but fewer features, particularly in terms of hqos

MX80: 60G backplane, 2m ipv4 prefixes, rich feature set

ASR1006: 5G output with ESP10, 4m ipv4 prefixes.  Rich feature set.

Really, you need to decide what you need from a router and then choose the 
box which provides what you need.  These three boxes are completely 
different systems with different strengths and weaknesses.  If you need raw 
muscle, the mlxe4 leaves the other boxes in the dust.  If you want 
cartloads of features, you'll probably need either the mx80 or the ASR1k.


Nick,

Currently on our edge/border routers we run Sampled Netflow, iACLs, uRPF, BGP IPv4/IPv6 (full feeds, several peers), OSPFv2/v3 and I think those are all of the features we use.

We just don't want to end up with a platform that isn't upgradable and has a bunch of crippling hardware limitations.

thanks,
-Drew