I have about (50) asr901's in my network running mainly cell backhaul. They are pretty stable. I'm in south texas where it gets hot in the summer, and rains periodically, etc.... about (25) of those 901's are in cabinets with heat exchangers, so as I understand that, it's not AC but close... sort of blows and circulates the air through the cabinet or something like that.
I have dual evc's (service instances with xconnect mpls pw's) for each asr901 per cell tower. So I think that's called port-based eompls. I do use a asr901 with mpls l3vpn vrf routing too and it is working sufficiently like that too where I provide a vrf public ip enclave for a dslam. So it's got some options. I have wanted vpls at times and I hear it's coming, we'll see.... Ask some Cisco folks about other hardened NID options.... I hear there is another one coming.... and said to be touchless install hanging off an ME3600/3800 platform as a virtual linecard , sort of like the nV remote stuff like 9000v off a 9k. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Hartmann Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 4:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] Outdoor-hardened metro service platform? Dear all, weirdly, the archives don't seem to handle this use case, thus I am starting a new thread. We are using a mix of C6500 and ME3600 to collect Metro services (plain Internet upstream, BGP, OSPF, M/VPLS P and PE, QinQ, ideally service instances). As our network grows, we are increasingly faced with outdoor POPs being the only viable choice. That means * condensing humidity * wide temperature ranges * short unit depths Given the requirements above, what would be a decent hardware platform for us? Both new and near-EoL equipment would be fine. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
