On 19/04/16 14:46, Chris Welti wrote: > According to some slides from a russian cisco connect event, the > upcoming small-size NCS 5501 and NCS 5502 will support 1M+ FIB and > 50ms per port buffers. Seem to be killer boxes. 48x100GE in 2RU with > large FIB & buffers? Loving it already. I wonder what prices will > look like for those.
I'd heard rumours... But those are interesting specifications. The NCS5501 isn't too far away from the Arista 7280R, and is probably Jericho underneath, too. But with a good MPLS stack, as is the case for the other NCS devices. Some might be thinking "9001 upgrade!" but it's more likely direct competition to Arista's recent moves. That and I still hope there will be a MOD200-ish 9001 replacement to come at some point. Oh - and it's NCS 55k, not NCS 5k. The NCS 5508 is already a product, noted for its better buffers than the NCS 5001 & 5002 (which also already exist). -- Tom