Another platform you may want to take a look at is the NCS5501 Arie
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:02 PM Howard Leadmon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know it's long in the tooth, but the 7606 with RSP720's we have in > service still to this day has really done a nice job overall, not the > fastest, but it's survived and just stays up. > > That said, looking at the current routing table and expected growth, > it's looking like I need to plan for more routes than are possible in > the 7600 chassis. Looking at the current tables I am seeing about 740k > IPv4 routes, and about 65K IPv6 routes, and know even with TCAM > optimized on the RSP720's they top out at just over 800K routes, even > going to a SUP-2T doesn't really save the day. > > I know I have followed discussions further back in this group, but > haven't seen much for a bit, and I am just wondering where people are > now days on recommendations for a router to handle the current tables, > and to plan for the future for a bit. I saw at one point the ASR9001 > looked like a nice option, but it looks like it's 32bit, and that could > be an issue going forward with updates. I also see the ASR1000 > routers, something like the 1006 could be used and even support > redundant RP's and ESP's, and if I am reading it right would be good out > to about 4M routes (that should last a while). > > I need to have at least 4x 10GE interfaces in the router, as we have a > few upstream links that are all at 10GE, and a few GE links, plus of > course the links back into our switches. I haven't really used any > DS1/DS3 type connections in years, so figure we are pretty much Ethernet > only at this point in the game. > > So I am sure there are various opinions, but before I go out looking > around in the used marketplace, I wanted to see what people felt might > be a good direction to look before I run out of TCAM in the current router. > > As always, thanks for the input... > > > --- > Howard Leadmon > PBW Communications, LLC > http://www.pbwcomm.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
