On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Lockhart <si...@slimey.org> wrote: > On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +0000, Corey Touchet wrote: >> Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are > Or, protect your existing investment in 6500 and replace the SUP720 with the > SUP2T. You can then deploy the WS-X6904-40G-XL blades which give you 4 * 40G
I would generally suggest you look at it as a long term decision, at least before jumping to the next incremental (modest increase) on the upgrade treadmill. It depends on whether the 6500 is still a perfect match for your network other than the prefix limit. Your vendor should think of your equipment as an "investment" to be protected, by exploiting your feelings of loss aversion, but the upgrade treadmill is a trap..... next thing you know, you will have to replace the chassis, then you will need new linecards...... Keep in mind most of the MX series makes the 6500 look like a 5 port linksys home router, when it comes to carrying around and managing large BGP tables; both in terms of prefix capacity, speed, the policy/filtering/configuration management functionality of the OS, and how they will take the route update "beating" during setup of new multiple BGP sessions... The SUP2T is about a 100% increase in TCAM size, but still pretty limited in terms of system resources. You can also "protect" your investment if appropriate by taking this late 1990s gear off your BGP edge, or otherwise recruiting it for a role which it is more suited for in this day and age, where it is not handling full tables and thus the feeble amount of FIB size, CPU, memory are no potential hinderance now or on the next 10 years. The ability to link up 40G ports did not seem terribly useful when it would all be unsafely oversubscribed. > > You can then look to migrate onto the 6880 chassis which gives you a faster > backplane, whilst retaining compatibility with existing linecards. > > Simon -- -JH
