On 19 February 2014 03:21, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > 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 >
I don't disagree with this, but I'd like to emphasise Jeremy's subsequent remarks regarding the fact the ASR1k is really a great Nx1GE platform, but not one you'd deploy if you needed multiple 10GE interfaces. Aled _______________________________________________ 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/