[66277] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Jan 7 11:59:33 2004
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:57:09 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
Cc: Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
"Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>, Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401071613570.717@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > not trying to defend the 7500 platform, it's obsolete all right.
> > However, free is music to my ears.
>
> What about longer term maintenance issues? Is the 7500 not scheduled for
> EOL from Cisco 'soon' ? So, purchasing 7500 bits that might be dropped by
> 'normal' Cisco support in 1 year versus purchasing some other hardware
> that will be in support longer might pay out in the longer term?
They recently refreshed the platform with RSP16, VIP8, and MX. It's still
a viable platform for many medium size providers.
I personally wouldn't use it for anything passing more than a couple
hundred megs (at absolute most), but we have plenty of nodes like that.
Actually, we've been seeing a trend where we are replacing 4700's with
7505/7's.
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