What about 7600-S models ? I think Cisco is claiming that Cisco 7600-S (7606S, etc...) chassis is ready for less than 50 ms switching time with right software. For routing, you can setup graceful restart or something like that.
For Cisco ASR9000, I couldn't say much, because it is new product. When I checked Cisco product lines around January 2009, it wasn't there. So I consider it as still beta test product at customer's expense. :-) Alex Nick Colton wrote: > I work for a small CLEC, we have been doing FTTP for 5 years now but are > getting ready to update our core network and introduce IPTV services. Cisco > has been recommending the Cisco 7600 as our core router. My concern is that > cisco told us that in the event of an RSP failover the 7600 could take up to > 30 seconds to begin routing packets again, this seems wrong to me since my > old Extreme Networks BD 6808 can do failovers and rebuild route tables in > under 5 seconds but?? More recently I have been reading up on the ASR 9000 > however and it appears that it would be better sized for our company than > the 7600. A few questions I have for the group. > 1. Has anyone used the ASR 9000 in place of a Cisco 7600? > > 2. Is the ASR 9000 Carrier ready? Meaning 5x9's of availability, few > component failures, solid software...etc > > 3. Has anyone had issues where it took the 7600 30 seconds to start routing > again after an RSP failover? > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
