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.
q. — Quinn Snyder | snyd...@gmail.com -= Sent via iPad. Please excuse grammar, spelling, and brevity =- > On Jan 23, 2020, at 14:03, Colton Conor <colton.co...@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.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 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp