> Jason Lixfeld
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 12:48 PM
>
> The NCS5001 is out of scope here, as I was recently told that it’s not
> recommended as a P; it’s not (any longer?) a supported use case.
> 
No doubt, it's a L2 switch, which happened to do some MPLSy stuff.

> The NCS5501 as a P (ISIS, BFD, LDP) and the NCS5501-SE as a SP Peering (ISIS,
> BFD, LDP, v4/v6-full-Internet-table-in-a-VRF, Full XR RPL stack, CoPP/LPTS)
> would be the candidate use cases.
> 
Actually NCS5501 with 18Mpps per 10GE and NCS5501-SE with just 15Mpps per 10GE 
(slower because of the external TCAM) are both at the bottom end of my 
performance chart. 
So don't expect line-rate with all the edge protecting filters (or god forbid 
QOS in addition to that) -basically like MPC7 -but that card in my eyes is an 
MPLS core card.

So yes for P-core nodes the performance may be just right, but for edge I would 
not recommend it. 

Oh and there's the pre-classifier thing I'm not sure about on forwarding NPUs 
used in these, so if you plan on using it in a converged backbone 
(voice/data/internet) you might want to ask your SE what the situation is there 
(whether it can protect high priority data if ASIC is overloaded during DDoS 
which with such underpowered chip is very likely). 
 
adam



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