Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Curtis Maurand wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the f

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
hat kind of router are you considering? Is this for a large network? What > > are the network needs? > > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:09:20 -0700 > > > From: fra...@genius.com > > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > > Subject: Re: router

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Chris Woodfield
f you for quite > some time. > Make sure it's not close to EOL. > > What kind of router are you considering? Is this for a large network? What > are the network needs? > > > >> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:09:20 -0700 >> From: fra...@genius.com >>

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Brandon Kim
pport IPv6 natively. Our plan is to dual-stack our edge routers, so it is ultimately up to the endpoints to support IPv6. We don't want to deal with any tunneling protocols like Teredo for IPV6. > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:29:27 -0700 > From: fra...@genius.com > To: na

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Franck Martin
From: "Brandon Kim" To: fra...@genius.com, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, 2 October, 2010 6:22:27 PM Subject: RE: router lifetime Well a lot of routers even 3 years ago support IPv6. You can dual-stack pretty much any router today if you have the right IOS. But I do under

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick Stueck
I still have a few Cisco 2600 Series routers in service from 9 years ago. Some of those here soon are being replaced with the 2800/3800 series integrated service routers. These routers don't handle a lot as far as traffic, so even the 2600 series routers are still performing the tasks at hand ver

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Franck Martin > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:23 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: router lifetime > > How long do you keep a router in production? It depends on its purpose in the network, the change in requirements for that purpose over time, and

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread jim deleskie
t; > > > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:09:20 -0700 > > From: fra...@genius.com > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: router lifetime > > > > I'm looking at various scenario, but basically it is looking at IPv6 in > fact. > > > > It seems to me, that

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Brandon Kim
u for quite some time. Make sure it's not close to EOL. What kind of router are you considering? Is this for a large network? What are the network needs? > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:09:20 -0700 > From: fra...@genius.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: router lifetime >

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Franck Martin
, 2010 4:34:40 PM Subject: Re: router lifetime > How long do you keep a router in production? > What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? Hi Franck It really depends on the type of network you are running, the rate at which new features & bandwidth are required, and the av

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Brandon Kim
Don't have much to add other than Heath's response is pretty much what I would have said. It really all depends on your business needs as well as policy, or standards you need to meet > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:34:40 +0100 > Subject: Re: router lifetime > From: hj

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Heath Jones
> How long do you keep a router in production? > What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? Hi Franck It really depends on the type of network you are running, the rate at which new features & bandwidth are required, and the availability of software and hardware upgrades. Also, in a lot of