[70041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 orother vendor ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Apr 26 08:24:55 2004
To: "Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net>
Cc: "'Rafi Sadowsky'" <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>,
"'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: 26 Apr 2004 08:24:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: <002501c42b56$578c4990$aa390618@geronimo>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net> writes:
> I was surprised by the similarities between the 7507 and 7513. Why EOL
> the one device that has a pleasing form factor ? There are MANY
> providers who would be quite happy with ~ 600 mbps? That's a lot of
> billings...
I think there are long-term contracts with certain Big Customers (tm)
that preclude EOLing the 7507 and the 7513, else they would be EOL as
well. Just a guess though.
The AGS+ was manufactured in small quantities for many years after
commercial sales for all intents and purposes ceased, to support these
same customers.
---Rob