[AusNOG] LAC/LNS hardware recommendation

[Barrie Hall]

> >
> > Cisco ASR1k is a good choice for LAC/LNS.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > I can, from experience, tell you it's about the best for running IPv6 at
> scale.
> >
>
Agree, 1k's are great for an LNS.


>
> >>>
> >>> The whole E/ERX is coming close to EOL with Juniper.
> >>>
> >>> The (JunOS running) MXen being their stated replacements. Until
> >>> recently the MXen didn't support L2TP LNS, but the release of 11.4
> >>> this month fixes that, although it will be first gen quality (and I
> >>> don't think it's available on the MX80, only the larger boxes when
> >>> they're running "trio" line cards).
> >>>
>

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......

I would never run first release Juniper code in production anyway. Broken
promises.

Barrie
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