[66271] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Wed Jan 7 11:02:41 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:00:33 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>,
"Dan Armstrong" <dan@beanfield.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Dan Armstrong wrote:
>> GSRs are useless if you are doing any kind of
>> aggregation. Their traffic shaping abilities
>> are embarrassing.
> Neil J. McRae
> Historically yes, but no longer. The latest line of
> GSR cards now give them much greater capability in
> this area even though it was never designed as an
> access box.
There still is the issue of cost though. GSR line cards are not cheap.
>> 7500 is the classic aggregator. They do the job
>> quite well, actually. Based on cost right now, I
>> would take 10 7500s over 1 7600 anyday.
> If you are just aggregating E1/T1 then I'd agree,
> but the minute you need DS-3/E3/STM-1/ATM/100BaseT/
> Gige aggregation then the 7600 is a far better
> choice cost wise
I would put 10mbps Ethernet and possibly DS3 in the same pool as E1/T1
though; this still remains in the realm of things a 7500 does fine. I'm
not trying to defend the 7500 platform, it's obsolete all right.
However, free is music to my ears.
Michel.
