>From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Shawn L >via NANOG >Sent: Wednesday, 25 December 2024 9:07 am >To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> >Subject: Re: Distributed Router Fabrics
>It has been an interesting discussion. Always willing to see what others are >doing in this space and evaluate it to what we're doing / thinking about going >forward. >We were just quoted 250k+ for a Cisco ASR9902 with one route processor card >(list. not our price). There can be 2 rps, but they don't talk to each other >-- who thought that was a good idea. We were just looking for something that >could take a couple of full tables and had 2 - 4 100g connections. >We're still using ASR920s (12 10g ports, rather uncommon) at most of our pops >but have seen the writing on the wall that 10g will not be enough at some >point and 100g will be necessary. Nokia 7750-sr2s would do what you want at a much better price point I would suggest. >I did have an interesting conversation with Ribbon (we have a C15 phone >switch) about their Neptune platform. Surprisingly affordable when you look >at what Cisco is charging. Though they didn't have as many 100g interfaces as >I'd like -- can't see using them as a BGP speaking router, but for internal >transport stuff, it was definitely attractive. >Again, always nice to see what others are using / considering for similar >stuff. Too often all we hear about are the 'really big guys' and how they're >deploying X for 400g now, etc. Shawn
