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

[John van Oppen <jvanoppen () spectrumnet us>]

We gave up and went to ASR9ks but that that was also a pretty big budget upgrade...

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Simon Lockhart
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:57 PM
To: Corey Touchet
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +0000, 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 :)

Or, protect your existing investment in 6500 and replace the SUP720 with the SUP2T. You can then deploy the 
WS-X6904-40G-XL blades which give you 4 * 40G or 16 * 10G on a 80G backplane (i.e. 2:1 oversubscription). I'm in the 
process of going through this upgrade at the moment and I'm happy with what I'm seeing.

A lot depends on the total traffic throughput you're looking to switch/route.

You can then look to migrate onto the 6880 chassis which gives you a faster backplane, whilst retaining compatibility 
with existing linecards.

Simon