Good point, SDM is just another gotcha. Allocate according to use and complain in the log when your getting close to max.
ME3600x + ASR9k FTW! Just make more physical variants of the ME and lower the price on ASR9k. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Leigh Harrison < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi there Waris, > > We've got quite a few of the ME3600's deployed now, which we migrated to > over and above a legacy 3750ME estate. The big point for us was to migrate > to MPLS access rather than have any spanning tree knocking about in the > Core. > > Favoured points from my team involves the ease of configuration and their > raw speed. Down sides are port capacity and buggy software. > > A denser system of 48 Gig ports and more 10Gb ports would assist greatly > as we can fill up 24 1Gb ports quite quickly depending on which PoP the > system has been built for. We tend to ring the 3600's into ASR9K's and the > more rings we buy, the more 9K 10Gb ports have to be taken up. Additional > 10Gb ports would be of great benefit to increase the capacity of each ring > we build, rather than build new rings. Our provider connections are also > moving from 1Gb up to 10Gb and I need to be able to cater for this towards > the Access, rather than the Core. > > I would also like to see more horsepower in the systems. We recently went > to implement multicasting in VRF and ran into some odd challenges. We > have the 3600's set up for routing and are about to push 24,000 IPv4 > routes. In our busier boxes we have around 9,000 routes, so I'm more than > happy with the capacity there. However, in order to turn on 250 MDT > routes, we have to drop the IPv4 routes down to 12,000. A sliding scale > would be nice for memory allocation, but in the face of having 3600's move > from 30% full to 60% full in the routing table to add in a new feature, we > went for a redesign of how we delivered the multicasting. > > Leigh > > > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security Cloud System, > Managed and Supported by TekNet Solutions (http://www.teknet.co.uk) > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- *Med Vänliga Hälsningar* *Mattias Gyllenvarg* _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
