[AusNOG] LNS Thoughts

[Ben Dale]

Hi Skeeve,

On 08/09/2010, at 12:46 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:

> Hey all,
>  
> We’ve been having a lot of discussion internally, with customers and people in the industry in the last few months about what people are doing regarding DSL LNS’s for Small/Medium ISPs.
>  
> With the advent of faster DSL tails, MetroE, Mobile Broadband and so on, the throughput of Cisco G1’s and G2’s are fast becoming outdated.
>  
> I’m just wondering what other people are using for LNSs which can handle 1k-4k DSL servers these days – or other suggestions.
>  
> The Juniper MX80 is coming with LNS functionality, but isn’t here yet... but looks nice for the bang for buck when it is an option.  Anyone else have thoughts?
>  

The M7i or M10i might be an option until the MX80 feature set catches up with the Trio cards.  The price point should be a bit lower and you'll be able to get the in-box redundancy with the M10i. They can be licensed to handle between 2 and 8K subs, the only limiting factor would be throughput - 1Gbps FD per PIC slot on both.

Cheers,

Ben
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