[107081] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Jun)
Mon Aug 25 23:29:55 2008
From: "James Jun" <james@towardex.com>
To: "'Jo Rhett'" <jrhett@netconsonance.com>,
"'Paul Wall'" <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BE8B63C-3738-4161-AB69-08A5EAB4D7EE@netconsonance.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:29:31 -0400
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>
> > As a box designed with the enterprise datacenter in mind, the E-
> series
> > looks to be missing several key service provider features, including
> > MPLS and advanced control plane filtering/policing.
>
>
> Ah, because Cisco does either of these in hardware?
Yes. PFC3 inside Supervisor 32, 720 and RSP 720 for Catalyst 6500/Router
7600 series perform both of these features in hardware. The article
mentioned in this thread compares Force10 E against the 6500 series.
james
