[AusNOG] Cisco ASR 1001-X is now EOL - replacement ideas?

[Mitch Kelly]

We are looking at the 8200/8300 as it's direct replacement

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025, 6:35 pm BOG Group Global, <b.g.global2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Wanted to get some advice from the group around replacement aggregation
> routers for our PoPs.
>
> We have several Cisco ASR 1001-X routers in our data centres for our PoPs.
> Just simple broadband aggregation from Telstra Wholesale EA, NBN EE, NBN
> TC4, etc etc. Nothing out of the ordinary really. Each PoP has two of these
> configured with redundancy in mind, usually 5-6Gbps of traffic at each PoP,
> and these Cisco routers do BGP to upstream carriers like Telstra, AAPT, etc.
>
> Given these Cisco routers have gone EOL recently, what would people
> recommend to replace these with? We picked up these ASR1001-X units as
> refurbished units a few years ago to keep the costs down, and they have
> served us well really.
>
> I'd really prefer to keep them within the Cisco product sets, since that's
> what my staff are familiar with, but I do know there are much cheaper
> options out there now (or we try and get refurbished units again)
>
> What would you guys suggest?
>
> Thanks
> Brian
> BOG Group Global
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