Hi, On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 05:54:25PM +0000, Lukas Tribus wrote: > > Now with the NCS5000 I'am wondering now how it competes with the ASR920. It > > has 1/10G and four 100G ports, thats some difference, but beyond that, > > mainly feature-wise (IOX vs XE) what can I expect from both? > > The NCS500x is a dumb, dumb switch. > > Its a cheap and fast-tracked Trident II+ implementation in IOS-XR.
Which sounds extremely tempting, TBH :-) - sane OS, fast hardware.
> If you are looking for a dumb P box (LSR) in your MPLS core, with no specific
> QoS
> or queuing requirements, but only straightforward label swapping, then I guess
> the box could do the job.
Have you evaluated it as a "limited table" IPv4/IPv6 router (like, a few
1000 internal routes, no full BGP stuff)? I find it tempting...
(QoS is not so much an issue where I'm looking at it - it would be
used instead of a QFX5100, which is, I think, based on the same chipset)
gert
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