Monday, May 14, 2018

Upgrade path from ASR1K series of routers for 40Gb/100Gb

Looking at potential upgrades when going from the ASR1K (specifically the ASR1002+). Starting to get close to the 10Gb bandwidth limitation and the route limitation of the ASR1K so wanted to look at what the natural upgrade would be for Cisco.

Looks like there are two choices:
ASR9001
ASR9006

The ASR9001 is much cheaper but it only supports 1 x 40Gb interface.

The ASR9006 has way more throughput and supports lots of 100Gb but it doesn't look like it supports 40Gb ports? Then of course there is the huge price difference.

Any thoughts on either of these. The ASR9001 seems almost like an interim upgrade but the ASR9006 although way more 'future' proof is VERY expensive due to having to jump in at the 100Gb port mark.

Thanks



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