[182835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Aug 2 18:57:34 2015
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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:57:36 +0100
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On 02/08/2015 23:30, Randy Bush wrote:
> otoh, i did not believe in the fad of using 65xxs at the bgp global
> edge. while it was temporarily cheap, two years later not a lot of folk
> had that many boats which needed anchoring.
A juniper EX9200 is a switch and a cisco sup2t box is a router. The vendor
said it so it must be true.
As anchors, I would be hard put to make a choice between a 6500 and a 7500,
which was a fine router in its day but alas only had a useful lifetime of a
small number of years. Obsolescence happens.
The distinction between layer 2 and layer 3 capable kit is not that
important these days. What's important is whether the device's packet or
frame forwarding capabilities are a good match for the expected workload
and that the total operating cost over the depreciation period works.
Nick
