Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-04 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Curtis Maurand wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:23 PM, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Franck Martin
From: Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com To: fra...@genius.com, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, 2 October, 2010 6:22:27 PM Subject: RE: router lifetime Well a lot of routers even 3 years ago support IPv6. You can dual-stack pretty much any router today if you have the right IOS

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Brandon Kim
is to dual-stack our edge routers, so it is ultimately up to the endpoints to support IPv6. We don't want to deal with any tunneling protocols like Teredo for IPV6. Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:29:27 -0700 From: fra...@genius.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: router lifetime From

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
, 2 Oct 2010 17:09:20 -0700 From: fra...@genius.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: router lifetime I'm looking at various scenario, but basically it is looking at IPv6 in fact. It seems to me, that using a router/network appliance today for IPv6 will need to be replaced

router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Franck Martin
How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the OS, tho it is not uncommon to see

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Heath Jones
How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? Hi Franck It really depends on the type of network you are running, the rate at which new features bandwidth are required, and the availability of software and hardware upgrades. Also, in a lot of

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Brandon Kim
Don't have much to add other than Heath's response is pretty much what I would have said. It really all depends on your business needs as well as policy, or standards you need to meet Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:34:40 +0100 Subject: Re: router lifetime From: hj1...@gmail.com To: fra

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Franck Martin
October, 2010 4:34:40 PM Subject: Re: router lifetime How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? Hi Franck It really depends on the type of network you are running, the rate at which new features bandwidth are required, and the availability

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread jim deleskie
...@genius.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: router lifetime I'm looking at various scenario, but basically it is looking at IPv6 in fact. It seems to me, that using a router/network appliance today for IPv6 will need to be replaced in 3 years or less. Looking at past, anything older

RE: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Franck Martin Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 4:23 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: router lifetime How long do you keep a router in production? It depends on its purpose in the network, the change in requirements for that purpose over time

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Franck Martin wrote: How long do you keep a router in production? What is your cycle for replacement of equipment? For a PC, you usually depreciate it over 3 years, and can make it last 5 years, but then you are stretching the functionality, especially if you upgrade the

Re: router lifetime

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick Stueck
I still have a few Cisco 2600 Series routers in service from 9 years ago. Some of those here soon are being replaced with the 2800/3800 series integrated service routers. These routers don't handle a lot as far as traffic, so even the 2600 series routers are still performing the tasks at hand