Thursday, October 11, 2018

Cisco C9500-32C or Cisco NCS-5011 as P-routers

Hey fellow networkers!

We are going to replace our old ASR9000 which is our P-layer core network.

Our CORE network is connected with 8 P-routers via dark fiber and wavelenghts (point-to-point no ISP in between)

So i have been looking into buying some new equipment and at the moment i am looking at either the new high performance 9500 which have 32,100Gbit ports or NCS-5011 which also have 32, 100Gbit ports.

The NCS-5011 is places as an WAN-agg router and the 9500 more as an as far as i know (campus) layer3 switch? but it also have a "CORE template"

Today our P-routers is only handling functions OSPF v2 (IPv4), MPLS LDP, Multicast-routing, PIM, BFD.

In the future we will use same functions as above but probably with Netflow, SGT, OSPF v3 or ISIS for IPv6 (no SD-WAN etc)

I have read and compared the data sheets and i cant find any limitations in IPv4, IPv6, Multicast, SGT table, netflow tables

Is there something else i should watch out for? What do you think?



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