We use the ASR9000 L2 for unicast applications with very few issues. We ran into issues when creating L2 access ports on the ASR and feeding multicast video to video equipment connected to the access ports. We use sparse-mode with SSM, IGMPv2 with static SSM mappings, all inside a VRF. We had no issues when streaming 1Gbps video. Video would begin tiling at 2Gbps. At 2.5Gbps+ the video was unrecognizable and unicast data would be affected as well (intermittent packet loss). The router was running XR ver 4.x at the time. Cisco TAC was involved but no solution was found. There may have been improvements between now and then and and we have not tested it since. This situation caused use to keep the 7600 around for multicast video and moved all else to the ASR. Now the 7600 is EOL. We need to decide if we should attempt video on the ASR again or replace the 7600 with a 6800 as p.dath suggested. Thank you for your responses. Please let me know if you have any other input or suggestions for us. We are looking into the 6800 series. Thanks again!
