The 6800 is a l3 switch. The ASR9k is a full blown router. If you need to connect to non Ethernet circuits you will need a router. If you want real qos you will need a router.
How far are the DCs apart? Inter dc l2 is never a great idea if it can be avoided. You may also want to look at the qfx51000 Sent from a mobile device > On 27 Nov 2014, at 22:05, R LAS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Simon > can you detail more "ASR9k can be more flexible on EoMPLS (VPLS) than 6807" ? > > Regards > >> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:26:55 +0000 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASR vs 6807 >> >>> On Thu Nov 27, 2014 at 10:18:41AM +0000, R LAS wrote: >>> Discussing a new architecture of DCI (Data Center Interconnection), Cisco >>> raccomends both ASR9k and 6807. The architecture requested by the customer >>> forecast MPLS/VPLS supported by DCI. >>> >>> From pricing point of view there is a quite big difference (win 6807), from >>> feature point of view Cisco says the difference is "only" the number of >>> mac-addresses supported and the sw modularity. >>> >>> Can anybody help in digging more the "technical" difference ? >> >> I'm going through much the same at the moment, and settling on 6807, largely >> from a price perspective. >> >> ASR9k is (today) a more capable box for routing - particularly if you want >> higher bandwidths. ASR9k has 100G ports today. 6807 only has 40G. ASR9k can >> be more flexible on EoMPLS (VPLS) than 6807. >> >> 6807 has a lot of potential (880G per slot), but it's not supported by either >> Supervisors or Linecards that are available today (current limit is >> 80G/slot). >> >> Simon > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
