On 10/31/2019 2:04 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
Actually I'm amazed at all the newfangled gear which promises to do
everything and then fails at essentials that *my 6500s* have been doing
well from day 1...
I have really loved my 65xx's and 7600's that I have had, and my 7606
is running to this very day, passing many bits very happily.
OTOH, my 6500s are really falling apart, and we're fairly busy getting
rid of them (replacing the switch layer with Arista Trident2+/3 MLAG
pairs, routing for "things without ACLs" on there as well, routing for
"things with ACLs" yet undecided)... BGP currently goes to ASR9001s,
but the lack of ports and the price insanity of ASR9901 make me look
at MX204 and Arista Jericho gear...
I had a few tell me to look at the 9901, but agree it's far to rich
for my blood, we are just small fry's running in a handful of racks, so
I have a hard time justifying a 100K for a router. So do you feel
that the ASR9001 would be a good choice for the next 5 years or so, and
if I am correct on the 9001 I think the licensing is all there from the
start, so it should just play? I think the only thing that made me
blink at the unit, is I only saw dual power supplies, granted it's a
rare day you see the processors drop over.
I really like my ASR9001s, but the Cisco BU and OS confusion does not
really make me confident that this is the company I want to trust for
the next 15+ years... (unlike the 6500s that really *really* served
us well for a loooong time).
As I mentioned in my prior message to Mark, I even brought up the
option of a Juniper, the MX240's seem to be reasonable, but a great many
on the Juniper list no less warned me to be cautious and said if I
wanted to consider JunOS I best have a unit to lab with for a while
first. That and list with so many other vendors, the licensing looked
every bit as much of a pain in the backside. So after all that I went
back to looking at the ASR1006 and ASR9001 for my task. As I also
mentioned in my prior message back to the list, I really just need a
good BGP speaker with capacity for a few million IPv4/IPv6 routes, so I
am not fork-lifting it out in a years time. I also need say 8 10GE
ports to connect to my upstreams, peers, and the rest of my internal
network..
gert
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Howard Leadmon
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com
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