In reply to Noriyuki Yamaguchi.

Yes this is still the crux of the issue that no one has answered!

They keep saying RP1 with 4GB handles 500K routes then go on to talk about the capacity of the ESP card. So far as I can tell from other sources the TCAM on ESP card on the ESP card does not store routes only ACL,QoS mappings etc

Omar - if a customer has the original ASR1002 with the built in RP1 (fixed at 4GB) can they increase the routes it can hold by replacing an ESP5 with an ESP10 card? or does the whole ASR1002 have to be replaced because regardless of what the ESP card can do if it has an RP1 it can never hold more than 512K routes.