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Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Varriale)
Fri Apr 16 10:29:29 2010
From: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale@comcast.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:29:09 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>---- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious@gmail.com>
>To: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale@comcast.net>
>Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:22 AM
>Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
>
>
>That's the spec sheet, and that's for straight forwarding.
>If you want to do much of anything else at all with the router,
>Cisco has another web page that says they only recommend 45Mbps on the
>3845 and something like half that on the 3825.
>It's especially an issue if you need to do traffic-shaping, which you
>usually do for MetroE.
That's the marketing sheet so you continue to purchase up.
But, notice what I said in my original post about CPU. There's only so much
of it. So, adjust appropriately for whatever feature you turn on.
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