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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Barrie,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>How was your experience with the E-series? Can you share whether good or bad, will be interesting to hear from someone who has hands on with these routers…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And did you finally end up replacing E series with 1ks or kept them?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ankit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Barrie Hall<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> Matthew Moyle-Croft<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net; Ankit Agrawal<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] LAC/LNS hardware recommendation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>><br>> Cisco ASR1k is a good choice for LAC/LNS.<br>><br>> My experience with it is pretty good, it scales (you can buy small ASR1001s upto larger ASR1004/6 which, with the newer RP and ESPs will do larger sub numbers and many 10Gs).<br>><br>> I can, from experience, tell you it's about the best for running IPv6 at scale.<br>><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>Agree, 1k's are great for an LNS.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>>>><br>>>> The whole E/ERX is coming close to EOL with Juniper.<br>>>><br>>>> The (JunOS running) MXen being their stated replacements. Until<br>>>> recently the MXen didn't support L2TP LNS, but the release of 11.4<br>>>> this month fixes that, although it will be first gen quality (and I<br>>>> don't think it's available on the MX80, only the larger boxes when<br>>>> they're running "trio" line cards).<br>>>><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Very nasty stuff. Juniper should have known better. The result was that a bunch of us who have a *lot* of E-series had a hard look at the Cisco 1K's......<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would never run first release Juniper code in production anyway. Broken promises.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Barrie<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>