On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 09:27:45 AM Waris Sagheer (waris) wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I have seen lot of good inputs on this mailer. I am > collecting feedback for the existing deployment > challenges on the following platforms so that we can > address them. > > -ME3800X > -ME3600X > -ME3600X-24CX > -ASR903 > -ASR901 > -ME3400E
- I would like to see a variant of the ME3600X/3800X
that provides for at least 4x 10Gbps SFP+ uplink
ports.
- I would like to see a variant of the ME3600X/3800X
that provided for 48x Gig-E copper or fibre ports
in a 1U chassis (I'll also take a 1.5U chassis if
times are really hard). Yes, all at line rate :-).
- I would like to see a solution that allows for PoP
growth. We've had scenarios where the number of
ME3600X/3800X chassis has grown to a level to
justify looking at a chassis (ASR9000 or
MX480/960), but the line card costs alone still
make stacking yet another ME3600X/3800X a
commercially better idea, but lousy for
operations. What can the team do to allow
operators to grow ports and scale on a per-PoP
basis while simplifying operations and keeping
port costs down? I've never been drawn to
virtual/multi-chassis systems, but... :-).
- I'm not very heavy on growing the FIB on the
ME3600X/3800X systems, but any thought Cisco can
put into this that doesn't make the cost of
building the units outrageous would be much
appreciated. This isn't critical for me; just a
very nice-to-have.
In addition to what Nick and the others have already
mentioned, those are the things I'd like to see addressed,
Waris.
For me, one of the things that pleases me most about the
ME3600X/3800X (apart from the fact that we can drop STP and
extend IP/MPLS into the Access) is that QoS is normal,
simple and behaves like a regular Cisco router. Additional
work and simplification in this area (particularly coming as
close to the flexibility of what software routers like the
7200 can do) would be much appreciated. You have no idea how
much it sucked running the 3750ME as a Metro-E IP/MPLS
Access platform and trying to do simple or complex QoS
strategies for customers and the core :-).
Many thanks for reaching out to the community about this,
Waris. It makes all the difference for us operators, and is
more of what we would like to see from our preferred
vendors.
Cheers,
Mark.
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