[j-nsp] Suggestions for Edge/Peering Router..

[Mark Tinka]

On 23/Sep/19 14:07, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> What are your other requirements?  Who/what else are you looking at?

We were the first ISP in the world to run IP/MPLS all the way into the
Access back in 2009 - TIME dotCom, Malaysia - on the Cisco ME3600X.

I haven't operated that network since 2012, but it keeps growing from
what I know, now having migrated to the Cisco ASR920.

We looked at other vendors, and the only one that came close to Cisco's
competition was Brocade with their CES/CER2000 NetIron. But Cisco's
overall price, design and feature set on the ME3600X was just too good.

Juniper have dropped the ball here for years. Until the MX204. However,
the MX204 is good if you run 10Gbps customers in the Metro. Otherwise,
for now, nothing beats the ASR920, IMHO.

So in short, we want a full-blown router in the Access, but designed
cheaply enough for Metro applications.

Mark.