[66840] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco 7600
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Luyer)
Tue Jan 27 03:48:49 2004
From: "David Luyer" <david@luyer.net>
To: "'Christopher J. Wolff'" <chris@bblabs.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:45:18 +1100
In-Reply-To: <B0005846730@vopmail1.bblabs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Christopher Wolff wrote:
> Several weeks ago there was a lively debate on Nanog regarding cisco
> performance, if I recall correctly, one party indicated that they =
upgraded
> from a 7206 NPE400 to a GSR and only saw a 30% improvement in CPU
> utilization. That's a lot of bling bling for 30%...
Especially as you can more than double the performance of a NPE400 to a
NPE-G1 for far less. If you have CPU-intensive needs, there are many =
cases
where a NPE-G1 is a better answer than a 6500, 7600 or GSR.
OTOH if you're "just" moving packets, the "high-end" stuff is much more
likely to be your answer.
As a point of interest, AARNet have chosen Procket routers for AARNet3.
Would be interesting to know what the decision factors were, price or
performance -- is a T640 just too slow? ;-)
David.
