[AusNOG] LAC/LNS hardware recommendation

[Ankit Agrawal]

Barrie,

 

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.

 

And did you finally end up replacing E series with 1ks or kept them?

 

Ankit.

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Barrie Hall
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:10 PM
To: Matthew Moyle-Croft
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net; Ankit Agrawal
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] LAC/LNS hardware recommendation

 

 


>
> 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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