[173624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Tue Jul 29 19:01:35 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:56:36 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Corey Touchet <corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com>
In-Reply-To: <CFFC6128.10BFA%corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +0000, Corey Touchet wrote:
> Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are
> equally welcome as alternatives, but I?d love to hear from those with
> personal experiences today vs sales people trying to tell me it would route
> the world :)
Or, protect your existing investment in 6500 and replace the SUP720 with the
SUP2T. You can then deploy the WS-X6904-40G-XL blades which give you 4 * 40G
or 16 * 10G on a 80G backplane (i.e. 2:1 oversubscription). I'm in the process
of going through this upgrade at the moment and I'm happy with what I'm seeing.
A lot depends on the total traffic throughput you're looking to switch/route.
You can then look to migrate onto the 6880 chassis which gives you a faster
backplane, whilst retaining compatibility with existing linecards.
Simon
