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

[Jason Lixfeld]

> On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:17 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Is the MX204 not a prohibitively expensive 10G port?

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

If you were considering the NCS540, then you’re OK with BCM there?  If so, something like the ACX5448, except far more in-line with the NCS540 price per port.  NCS540 pricing/10G port is much more realistic to what a 10G port should cost these days vs. MX204 or ACX5448.