Re: [c-nsp] ASR opinions..

["Christian 'wiwi' Wittenhorst" <wiwi () progon net>]

On 2012-03-08 18:25, PC wrote:
> The low end ASRs are poor boxes for full BGP table internet edge
> applications.  They have many other great applications, but the reason they
> are bad here is simply route limits in the FIB.
>
> The asr1001 only supports 512,000 IPV4 routes in the FIB at any given point
> in time, and 128,000 IPV6 routes.

Current ASR1001 do NOT have that limitation:

<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9343/data_sheet_c78-441072.html>

> Performance
> * 1,000,000 IPv4 or 1,000,000 IPv6 routes
> * BGP RR scalability to 2,000,000 IPv4/IPv6 routes
>    (using 4-GB memory) or 9,000,000 IPv4/IPv6
>    routes (using 8-GB memory)