Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 04:21:32 AM Corey Touchet wrote: Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are equally welcome as alternatives, but I’d love to hear from those with personal experiences today vs sales people trying to tell me it would route the world :)

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 juillet 2014 09:53 +0200, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu : IOS XR on the CRS and ASR9000 is based on QNX, which suffers from being only a 32-bit kernel. So even if the hardware will ship with 4GB of RAM, the OS will only see 4GB (I have 12GB in my CRS's and 8GB on my ASR9001's).

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:12:44 AM Vincent Bernat wrote: What's the point of shipping more memory then? Maybe the OS can only address 4GB per process but is able to use up to 64GB in total (PAE)? That was one argument from Cisco - that when the software catches up, they might be able

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Simon Lockhart si...@slimey.org wrote: On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +, Corey Touchet wrote: Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are Or, protect your existing investment in 6500 and replace the SUP720 with the SUP2T.

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 03:06:55 PM Jimmy Hess wrote: I would generally suggest you look at it as a long term decision, at least before jumping to the next incremental (modest increase) on the upgrade treadmill. It depends on whether the 6500 is still a perfect match for your network

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-30 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2014-07-30 08:06 -0500), Jimmy Hess wrote: Keep in mind most of the MX series makes the 6500 look like a 5 port linksys home router, when it comes to carrying around and managing large BGP tables; both in terms of prefix capacity, speed, the policy/filtering/configuration management

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +, Corey Touchet wrote: Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are equally welcome as alternatives, but I?d love to hear from those with personal experiences today vs sales people trying to tell me it would route the world

RE: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-29 Thread John van Oppen
from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +, Corey Touchet wrote: Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are equally welcome as alternatives, but I?d love to hear from those with personal experiences today vs sales people trying

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-29 Thread vristevs
The 6880 has a single fixed Sup 2T. I believe you meant the 6807. That's what we are looking at to replace our 6500s. There currently are no high density 10G cards out for the 6807 but our account rep tells us a 32 port 1/10G SFP+ line card is coming out in December. If it weren't for this