[66249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Tue Jan 6 20:03:50 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:03:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: bcm <bcm@inkline.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <004001c3d480$7f7c97c0$4263bacc@corp.ptd.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, bcm wrote:
> But where to go? The Cisco GSR platform seems a logical choice, but
> their new 7600 series units are attractive for their cost.
7600's have all the craptacularity of 6500 switches, because thats what
they are, I would reccomend against them.
Buying GSR's is probably the right replacement for 7500's if you want to
stick with Cisco.
> Juniper may also have a place at this end of the processing spectrum.
> I'd also like to ensure that the new platform supports doing CAR and
> ACLs at line rate, given the client base.
Then you'll be wanting J boxes then, cuz Cisco doesn't do that very well
from my experience.
