Re: BRAS Options

Can you tell Sam and I used to work at the same company? :)

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Sam Silvester <[email protected]>
wrote:

> To a point, the number of subscribers doesn't matter as much as the
> throughput. If you're looking at 16k+ subs on a single box, you probably
> need to start being a little careful but otherwise just make sure you've
> got a decent RP and you should be right.
>
> If you simply need to shift (say) 10Gbps of traffic with "more than a few
> thousand" but say less than 16k, then anything in the ASR range with an RP2
> and ESP40 will almost certainly be ample.
>
> Another thought, considering you mention the 7301, is to scale out
> horizontally - it's not clear if you're already doing this. The nice bit
> about that also is you could have a few 7201s sharing the load 4 ways,
> which means your IP pool overhead to cater for a box failure is also much
> less than running only two boxes.
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Dave Mill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A Juniper MX40 or MX80 seems to meet your needs there - depending on
>> exact subscriber figures. From memory if every customer is in QinQ you
>> won't be able to have more than 8000 on a MX80 series chassis due to
>> interface limits.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Stan Rivett <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Crikey, thanks for all the replies
>>>
>>> Yes we need 10 Gbit, at least 3 ports and I'd rather not be too specific
>>> about numbers but more than a few thousand.
>>>
>>> Apologies for being a bit of a cheap bugger but you know what its like
>>> as an SME, it all comes out of my pocket ;-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Stan Rivett
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>>> On 8 November 2017 at 11:14, Tim Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Juniper MX5 + licensing shouldn’t cost you more than $30k depending on
>>>> your Juniper partner status and where you buy it from.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of Stan Rivett <
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>> *Date: *Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 11:02 AM
>>>> *To: *nznog <[email protected]>
>>>> *Subject: *[nznog] BRAS Options
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The time has come to replace my poor old Cisco 7301 and the quote I got
>>>> for an ASR1002-HX made my eyes water. Still waiting for a Juniper quote but
>>>> the general discussion seemed like similar numbers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are there any other reliable options out there that don't cost more
>>>> than my first house?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stan Rivett
>>>>
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