Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?

[Peter Lothberg <roll () Stupi SE>]

> > > GRF's also take about 5-10 minutes to reboot, which can be annoying.
> > Nathan Stratton                             President, CTO,
NetRail,Inc.

> My 7206s reboot in well under a minute (the -p- builds fit right into
> bootflash, so no need for a boot-then-think-then-load-flash-then-think
> cycle).
>
> Once up, they transfer full routes bidirectionally with 7505s in 
> 10-15 seconds.
> Avi


Our BFR:s (cisco 12000) reboots in less than a minute and if it's a
box reload the outage is short enough so that downstream IBGP speakers
maintain their BGP sessions that are routed through the reloaded box.


--Peter