04-05-2016 07:49 PM - edited 03-01-2019 05:50 PM
Hello experts,
I need some advice about choosing suitable router's specification/model to support large IPv6 network. To date, our company has close to 600 remote sites with a mixture of different connectivity such as VSAT, leased-line, Metro-E and ADSL. All these are under MPLS/L3-VPN network provided by our ISP. Our network is running dual-stack and currently we gradually enabling some selected sites for IPv6 and will proceed with the rest of the sites before end of this year. The question is how do I choose a router that can support large dual-stack network like ours ? What is the criteria or what is your recommendation for me to get a suitable router which not only supports our current network but as well as the future addition of our remote sites?
Our current main router specification as follow:
Model: Cisco ASR1002
RAM: 4GB
Interface B/W: 500Mbps
Kindly advice.
Thank you very much
Alex
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04-05-2016 08:03 PM
I think you have more than enough hardware (ASR 1002) to manage an IPv6 network with 600 remote sites. I think you are likely to have oodles of spare capacity.
04-05-2016 07:50 PM
The ASR is a good family. How much bandwidth have you got coming into your main site from all the remote sites?
04-05-2016 07:52 PM
Hello Phillip,
Currently we have 500Mbps for almost 600 sites.
Regards,
Alex
04-05-2016 07:58 PM
What what is the memory utilisation like?
04-05-2016 08:04 PM
Hi Phillips,
Average 40% based on our monitoring system.
Regards,
Alex
04-05-2016 08:05 PM
Worst case you might need to upgrade the RAM from 4GB to 8GB - but I doubt it.
04-05-2016 08:10 PM
Thank you Phillips! Appreciate it!
Alex
04-05-2016 08:03 PM
I think you have more than enough hardware (ASR 1002) to manage an IPv6 network with 600 remote sites. I think you are likely to have oodles of spare capacity.
04-06-2016 06:14 PM
Hi.
Btw, is there some sort of guidelines on what product or network devices' specification to be consider when implementing/deploying large dual-stack network similar like our network with 600 remote sites and able to cater close to a thousand remote sites in the future?
If there's any guideline available. I would like to have it.
Alex
04-06-2016 06:17 PM
Cisco Press have a book called "Deploying IPv6 Networks" which I think is pretty good.
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