[j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710

[Colton Conor]

What is Cisco's upgrade path from the ASR920 if you need more 10G ports?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:52 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

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> On 23/Jan/20 16:00, Shamen Snyder wrote:
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> > I have been following the ACX 710 for a while now. We have a use case
> > in rural markets where we need a dense 10G hardened 1 RU box.
> >
> > Looks like a promising box, hope the price is right. If not we may
> > have to jump to Cisco ASR920s
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> If I'm honest, what I've noticed with most traditional vendors selling
> Broadcom-based boxes is they are touting "price" as the killer use-case
> for those boxes. For me, I'm not unwilling to spend a little bit more if
> I can sleep at night knowing I have data plane parity between a
> Broadcom-based box and an in-house-based box from the same traditional
> vendor.
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> But time and time again, almost like clockwork, Broadcom-based boxes are
> being marketed as "Multi-Gigabit" and "Multi-Terabit" platforms with a
> gazillion ports at half the price of the "normal" box. What good is all
> that hardware if a simple feature doesn't work as I've known it to
> before "enhancing my network"?
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> >
> > 4 100/40G (can be channelized to 4x25G or 4x10G) interfaces, 24 1/10G
> > interfaces. Broadcom QAX chipset. 320Gbps of throughput. 3GB buffer.
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> What I saw about the ACX710 is it has a small FIB. Since we are used to
> filtering what enters our ASR920 FIB (and the ACX710 has about 12.8
> times that), that's not a show-stopper.
>
> Mark.
>
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