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Re: Vyatta as a BRAS


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:12:29 +0100

On 18 Jul 2010, at 10:58, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
ASR1K, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to, is a hardware-based router.  Same for ASR9K.

My c* SE swears that the asr1k is a "software router".  I didn't push him on it's architecture though. 

The asr9k is an npu based device - a completely different beast with different architecture / operating system / 
capabilities / etc.

Nick

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