Hi Mark, Thanks for all the feedback. Couple of questions and clarification, - 48 gig port switch requirement, I suppose you also need 4x10Gig uplink along with 48 Gig port, correct? - Per pop growth, I'll get get back to you with a solution to seek your feedback - Can you give me an idea in terms of number of FIB entries requirement? - Can you elaborate your comment "(particularly coming as close to the flexibility of what software routers like the 7200 can do)"? Any 7200 example functionality.
Best Regards, [http://www.cisco.com/web/europe/images/email/signature/horizontal06.jpg] Waris Sagheer Technical Marketing Manager Service Provider Access Group wa...@cisco.com<mailto:wa...@cisco.com> Phone: +1 408 853 6682 Mobile: +1 408 835 1389 CCIE - 19901 <http://www.cisco.com/> [Think before you print.] Think before you print. This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html From: "mark.ti...@seacom.mu<mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>" <mark.ti...@seacom.mu<mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> Organization: SEACOM Reply-To: "mark.ti...@seacom.mu<mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>" <mark.ti...@seacom.mu<mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> Date: Saturday, July 20, 2013 10:34 PM To: "cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>" <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>> Cc: Waris Sagheer <wa...@cisco.com<mailto:wa...@cisco.com>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ME3800X/ME3600X/ME3600X-24CX/ASR903/ASR901 Deployment Simplification Feedback 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 cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/