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.ti...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp