Re: [c-nsp] LSR platforms
Phil Bedard <[email protected]>
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Full disclosure I work for Cisco. There are a ton of Broadcom based boxes deployed in all roles these days. Certainly quite a few in P/LSR roles. The 55A1-24H, 36H are 100G dense J+ based platforms. There are 10G dense platforms based on the same chips (55A1-48Q). There are also some newer J2 platforms that work really well as LSRs also if you are looking at a fixed platform. 8000 is a good fit if you want more capacity and a migration path to more 400G. The main difference between the 10001-36MR and the 8201-FH (32x400G) is the 10001 uses several NPUs to reach 9.6TB, the 8201-FH (32x400G) uses a single 12.8Tbps NPU. The power consumption of it is about 25% of the 10001. Thanks, Phil From: cisco-nsp <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 11, 2020 at 3:59 AM To: 'James Mitchell' <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] LSR platforms > James Mitchell > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:03 PM > > What hardware platforms are operators running as P routers for smaller > MPLS networks? I’m not interested in large CRS type platforms, but simply an > LSR thats main function is MPLS switching at 10/40/100G speeds. Preferably > Cisco. Anyone have a recommendation based on experience? > I'm hesitant to recommend Broadcom based platform (NCS5k/Arista/ACX) for platform certification testing in a worry that it will bite us in a long run, though less so for a P role (as opposed to PE role). What about Cisco 8201 vs Juniper PTX10001-36MR -these two seem to be identical, have the same speeds and feeds. What I like about these is that they are 400G optimized to future proof the core. adam _______________________________________________ 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/