Tom, Do you actually think that Cisco would sell at NCS 5501 at the price point that Arista is going to sell a 7280R for? Spec wise they are very similar (except Arista has 8 more SFP+ ports and two more 100G ports). Arista is pricing the 7280R inline with Ciscos ASR9001. I doubt Cisco will offer a NCS 5501 for the same price as an ASR9001.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Tom Hill <t...@ninjabadger.net> wrote: > On 19/04/16 14:46, Chris Welti wrote: > > According to some slides from a russian cisco connect event, the > > upcoming small-size NCS 5501 and NCS 5502 will support 1M+ FIB and > > 50ms per port buffers. Seem to be killer boxes. 48x100GE in 2RU with > > large FIB & buffers? Loving it already. I wonder what prices will > > look like for those. > > I'd heard rumours... But those are interesting specifications. The > NCS5501 isn't too far away from the Arista 7280R, and is probably > Jericho underneath, too. But with a good MPLS stack, as is the case for > the other NCS devices. > > Some might be thinking "9001 upgrade!" but it's more likely direct > competition to Arista's recent moves. That and I still hope there will > be a MOD200-ish 9001 replacement to come at some point. > > Oh - and it's NCS 55k, not NCS 5k. The NCS 5508 is already a product, > noted for its better buffers than the NCS 5001 & 5002 (which also > already exist). > > -- > Tom >
