On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 01:28:59 AM Jeremy Bresley wrote: > The only caveats I'll mention on the ASR1K is that they > are priced around 1GbE ports. There are > OC3/OC12/OC48/DS3 cards available, but they tend to get > pricey quickly if you're doing very many ports.
I suppose that can be said for any platform that requires non-Ethernet (especially SONET/SDH) line cards. While the ASR1000 is probably the best platform that will mix-and-match Ethernet and non-SDH economically (well, Juniper's MX104 is now shipping, albeit too new), SDH is simply too expensive. We have seen prices for STM-64/OC-192 ports up to 8 times higher that of their 10Gbps Ethernet counterpart. Unless you're my competitor, would recommend pushing all your customers/connections to Ethernet whenever possible. Mark.
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