<html><head><base href="x-msg://110/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Skeeve,<br><div><div><br></div><div>On 08/09/2010, at 12:46 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">Hey all,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">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advent of faster DSL tails, MetroE, Mobile Broadband and so on, the throughput of Cisco G1’s and G2’s are fast becoming outdated.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">I’m just wondering what other people are using for LNSs which can handle 1k-4k DSL servers these days – or other suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); ">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?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br>Ben</div></body></html>