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

[Mark Tinka]

On 23/Sep/19 20:37, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

> Is the MX204 not a prohibitively expensive 10G port?

When you consider that you can:

    - Drive a Metro-E ring at 100Gbps with no special Transport gear.
    - Hang an ASR920 or two off of those 10Gbps ports to manage
low-speed customers.
    - Place your "serious" premium 10Gbps customers into one of them at
low volume with decent margin.

It makes plenty sense if you want to maintain an intelligent Access network.

If your design is to have a dumb Layer 2 Access/Metro and haul
everything into a central "IPGW", ah well...


> If you were considering the NCS540, then you’re OK with BCM there?

If I'm honest, IOS XR was the first thing that put us off. We didn't
make it far enough to even worry about the chipset :-).


>   If so, something like the ACX5448, except far more in-line with the NCS540 price per port.

The ACX5000 was a box we looked at back in 2015 and just moved on.
Nothing has changed there.


>   NCS540 pricing/10G port is much more realistic to what a 10G port should cost these days vs. MX204 or ACX5448..

Agree, but with us, it's not all just feeds and speeds. A box is more
than the sum of its ports. I'm happy to take a reasonably less dense box
if I am making money on it, than a dense, cheaper box where I'm still
making money but also staying up at 3AM every night.

Mark.