Hey Chris,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 11:03, Chris Welti <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can't report from production, but we have a 8201-32FH (Q200/Gibraltar) in the 
> lab
> right now. Currently considering it as a successor for 400G deployments
> where we had NCS55A1-24H for 100G before.
> So far so good for our use case as a basic PE. (unicast/multicast v4/v6, 
> OSPFv2/v3, BGP, MPLS for L2VPN VPLS/EoMPLS only, access ACLs)
> Our needed feature set is very limited, without QoS, VRFs, MPLS TE, SR or 
> SRv6, so can't comment on any of those features.
>
> Overall it seems it has more features and less limitations than the Jericho+ 
> in the NCS55A1-24H, e.g. v6 egress ACLs work, support for flowspec, uRPF 
> allow-default.
> My hope is that due to Cisco not depending on Broadcom and their SDK in those 
> chips that there will be less limitations and quicker fixes than in their 
> Jericho products, but who knows.
> Otherwise seems pretty similar to Jericho2 products, except its less power 
> hungry.

Thank you, I appreciate this. Are you focusing on Q200 because it
ships, or did you look at Q100 but decided against it?

I also similarly view it as a direct J competitor, and of course a lot
of the same people were involved designing both (J1 and Q100).
-- 
  ++ytti
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