VPLS support on ASR 9000

with all respect and salute,
i am new to ASR9K routers, but i am following up the light shed by Mr. xander over it.
we are going to deploy ASR9K at both MPLS core and edge and we must deploy VPLS among them as PE routers.
1- what kinds of line cards we must select toward P and CE at the edge?
2- do we have the same limitation as 7600 in which we must select ES+?
3- can we use low queue ethernet line cards toward P and CE?
4- i have the same above 3 questions for ASR 1000.
best regards,,

VPLS is supported on both low queue and high depth queue cards. Difference being Low queue will have some limitations on QOS. You need to select the card based on your RP, the 2 main categories being Trident and Typhoon. Trident being the old one and Typhoon being the new one supported with RSP440. So if running with 440, please select Typhoon cards.
Best Wishes,
Mohit

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============
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With Xander Thuijs
Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn how to Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers with Cisco expert Xander Thuijs. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers product family offers a significant added value compared to the prior generations of carrier Ethernet routing offerings. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is an operationally simple, future-optimized platform using next-generation hardware and software. The ASR 9000 platform family is composed of the Cisco ASR 9010 Router, the Cisco ASR 9006 Router, the Cisco ASR 9922 Router, Cisco ASR 9001 Router and the Cisco ASR 9000v Router.
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Xander Thuijs is a principal engineer for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series and Cisco IOS-XR product family at Cisco. He is an expert and advisor in many technology areas, including IP routing, WAN, WAN switching, MPLS, multicast, BNG, ISDN, VoIP, Carrier Ethernet, System Architecture, network design and many others. He has more than 20 years of industry experience in carrier Ethernet, carrier routing, and network access technologies. Xander holds a dual CCIE certification (number 6775) in service provider and voice technologies. He has a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Hogeschool van University in Amsterdam.
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If you watch the if statement, you're challenging that if the RD is something, or else, else... but, maybe, it doesn't work if you don't have an RD.
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