[j-nsp] MX104 Limitations

[Mark Tinka]

On 9/Jul/15 16:59, Adam Vitkovsky wrote:
> Right but I guess the main advantage of 9922 and 9912 is that the switch fabric is modular so one can grow/upgrade until the backplane becomes obsolete.
> But on 9904 the fabric seem to be integrated on the RSP so it's the same as 9k10 or 9k6 but yes the fabric is faster indeed.

And the ASR99xx will take more of the upcoming line cards that get released.

>
> Can't find the number now but while searching I did find it's actually 55 to 60Gbps switch capacity so that makes it directly comparable with ASR920 (the 1.5RU) -but no redundancy (though the MX104 redundancy is somewhat crippled by the common switch-fabric -whereas ASR903 has separate RP/SW-fabric)

Well, the ASR920 can only hold 20,000 IPv4 entries in FIB. So the MX104,
with the ability to do a full table, beats it there.

But then again, that is why the ASR920 is better-priced for such a role.
Hard to compete with that.

Mark.