Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
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Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
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Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers have a much higher scale when it comes to internet peering or service aggregation in mpls backbones. They way how IOS-XR is structured and the possibilities to use it, is far beyond what IOS-XE delivers.
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
The Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers is more powerful and modular in both hardware and software, a when we began to scale, we needed to replace the 1k as opposed the Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers. At the same PoP, we have had power issues that …
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
As Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers devices are 1RU device and provides ample of 1G ports, they consume less power and stacking them within the rack effectively provides lots of connections to connect multiple customers.
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
The Brocade was a very decent switch, and it's configuration and performance was very comparable to the Cisco switch. We had a Brocade because at the time of installation we could not get a Cisco. We are happy with the Brocade but it is end of life and end of support. We …
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
When we are integrating the ASR9000 router with other devices then there should be the same device that can cater to the throughput. We can use the Cisco 9600 Switch which can be easily integrated and can handle the speed in terms of uplinks 40G can be handled. Adding to this C…
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Each vendor has its advantages and disadvantages, I have had the opportunity to work with both ranges of products and they are quite stable, but personally, I prefer Cisco.
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Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
We have mainly used the ASR9000s to take the place of older models and devices such as the GSR and CRS model routers. The GSRs have long been End Of Life and are no longer supported by Cisco. The CRS is a capable device but does not offer the versatility of the ASR family of …
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Juniper was more security/less routing and Cisco was more routing/less security. Redback was Ericsson which is easy when creating VRFs known as contexts. When doing [the] show command, it would give you all the information within that …
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
Management is more comfortable with Cisco gear due to familiarity. The old adage that "Nobody was ever fired for IBM" translates perfectly to Cisco: "Nobody was ever fired for buying Cisco." In this case, our hands were forced into making a hardware upgrade. With a big leap …
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
We have replaced our [Cisco] 9000 [Series Aggregation Services Routers] with NCS 5500. The [Cisco] 9000 [Series Aggregation Services Routers] was able to handle the features we needed better than the NCS. We had to move our layer 2 down to Nexus switches.
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
From the performance point of view, I have not noticed any issues in our environment for this. From the operation point of view, [there] was a learning [curve] to the new IOS when we used Juniper routers, but not really an issue after the first installation.
Chose Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
The Cisco routers provide a similar administrative interface with the rest of our Cisco network hardware. This reduced staff training to support the hardware.