Hi Guys,

We have a current network comprising of 6 POPs, each with 3750/3560's and 
7200's - The 3560/3750's take trunk links from various carriers, and client 
tails are handed off to us as vlans. The 3560/3750's then have a portchan to 
the 7200's where all our L3 is done(As dot1q subints)

The 7200's all have ibgp mesh to each other, and run mpls+ospf - They also take 
ATM connections from carriers for DSL hand-off(LNS), and have bgp sessions to 
carriers for Inet access.

Majority of our clients are in vrf's that have tails terminating on multiple 
POPs.

The 7200's are G2's and a couple of them are doing ~500Mb/sec aggregate 
traffic(getting up to ~50% cpu) - Our initial thought was to replace the 7200's 
with ASR1000's, but we are also considering the 6503 with dual sup, run 
mpls/ibgp/ospf on these(For all our "internal" traffic vrfs etc), and only use 
the 7200's for external bgp(inet), plus LNS termination.(i.e. move away from 
our existing collapsed core setup)

Having never touched the 6500 range, is this a viable(better?) alternative to 
simply replacing the 7200's with ASR's?

Cheers.                                           
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