Cisco 7600 vs ASR 9000

Mon Sep 21 16:38:22 UTC 2009

What about 7600-S models ?
I think Cisco is claiming that Cisco 7600-S (7606S, etc...) chassis is
ready for less than 50 ms switching time with right software.
For routing, you can setup graceful restart or something like that.

For Cisco ASR9000, I couldn't say much, because it is new product.
When I checked Cisco product lines around January 2009, it wasn't there.
So I consider it as still beta test product at customer's expense. :-)

Alex

Nick Colton wrote:
> I work for a small CLEC, we have been doing FTTP for 5 years now but are
> getting ready to update our core network and introduce IPTV services.  Cisco
> has been recommending the Cisco 7600 as our core router.  My concern is that
> cisco told us that in the event of an RSP failover the 7600 could take up to
> 30 seconds to begin routing packets again, this seems wrong to me since my
> old Extreme Networks BD 6808 can do failovers and rebuild route tables in
> under 5 seconds but??  More recently I have been reading up on the ASR 9000
> however and it appears that it would be better sized for our company than
> the 7600.  A few questions I have for the group.
> 1.  Has anyone used the ASR 9000 in place of a Cisco 7600?
>
> 2.  Is the ASR 9000 Carrier ready?  Meaning 5x9's of availability, few
> component failures, solid software...etc
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> 3.  Has anyone had issues where it took the 7600 30 seconds to start routing
> again after an RSP failover?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
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