[63979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Oct 13 17:18:06 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:08:28 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>>> I've still yet to see anything that suggests that the difference
>>> between the 7600 and the 6500 is more than just a paint job and a
>>> marketting job.
> On Monday, October 13, 2003 10:37 PM, Robert A. Hayden
> <rhayden@geek.net> wrote:
>> 7600 is also vertical boards whereas the 6500 is horizontal.
* arnold@nipper.de (Nipper, Arnold) [Mon 13 Oct 2003, 22:53 CEST]:
> 6500-NEBS has also vertical boards ...
Well, guess what? That's because the 7600 is a 6509-NEB chassis.
Take a 6509, fill it with the most expensive versions of DFC, MSFC,
Supervisor, switch fabric cards etc., fill it all up with memory,
and the only difference with an OSR-7609 is the faceplace.
Compare the pictures at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/6000hw/inst_aug/01over.htm#69700
and
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/cis7600/hardware/osrouter/osr_over.htm#69700
or for the plain 7609
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/cis7600/hardware/cis_76xx/osr_over.htm#1068171
(the text leading up to this image leads to Figure 1-3, which is
incorrect, btw)
So, yes, Simon was very much correct - differences between 65xx and 76xx
(for equal values of xx) are initial configuration and the paint job.
-- Niels.
