+1 and I add a me3600x chassie to the mix of wet dreams. On 21 Jul 2013 08:01, "Mark Tinka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
