To clarify a bit: I meant they are non-essential to serving the sites. If they all went offline, visitors to Stack Overflow would not be aware.
What I sadly don't get is the hierarchy of your routers and switches by the pictures and the lack of QSFP+ utilization as well as the amount of copper. What's the reason behind the copper sfp transceivers in the ASR-1001[0]?
[0]https://nickcraver.com/blog/content/SO-Hardware-Network-NewY...