[j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710

[quinn snyder]

That would be something like the NCS540.
Its not an apples-to-apples comparison — as the 540 runs XR and the usual things that come with that.  There were some threads about it in [c-nsp] — might be something to explore.  I feel its a bit heavyweight for the metro, but it gives you environmentally hardened 10GE with a variety of options for uplink.

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> On Jan 23, 2020, at 14:03, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 23/Jan/20 16:00, Shamen Snyder wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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"?
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 4 100/40G (can be channelized to 4x25G or 4x10G) interfaces, 24 1/10G
>>> interfaces. Broadcom QAX chipset. 320Gbps of throughput. 3GB buffer.
>> 
>> 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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