[70061] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Apr 27 13:34:20 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:31:32 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
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>
In-Reply-To: <002501c42b56$578c4990$aa390618@geronimo>
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alexander Hagen wrote:
> 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...
From past experience there is no way you can get a 7507 to switch 600Mbps..
As for EOL, not sure.. the only deployments I've seen lately of 75xx have been
as aggregators for WAN circuits and theres usually a GSR doing the work behind
it, perhaps people are still buying 7513s for their card capacity?
Steve
>
> Alexander Hagen
> Etheric Networks Incorporated, A California Corporation
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafi Sadowsky [mailto:rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il]
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:38 PM
> To: Alexander Hagen
> Cc: 'Rafi Sadowsky'; North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200
> orother vendor ?
>
>
> Hi Alexander
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to say
> You asked why the Cisco website tool won't give you a 7505 as a config
> option I replied that it's EOL - with a quote from Cisco website
>
> All I see in the HTML table you sent is that the 7507(or 7513) is
> better
> than a 7505 - is there a non-obvious point I missed ?
>
>
>
