[98983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Kilpatrick)
Mon Aug 27 21:26:29 2007
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:24:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0708272039180.30395@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Of course there are other reasons to upgrade (better CPU, MPLS, IPv6, etc.),
Now if this was a dust old MSFC2 that was like 5 years old I'd say ok.
The problem is twofold:
1. Cisco is still selling the 7600 with the Sup32 bundle (which is
what we bought) and saying you can take a full route table on it. I could
already do MPLS and IPv6 on this box. This is pretty new hardware.
2. The only thing I could buy is the top of the line Sup720 3BXL.
Ok, fine, but I don't need mega-super-d00per backplane speed. I just need
more TCAM like Christoper Walken needs more cowbell. Cisco needs to have
a reasonable solution to this problem - especially if they want to keep
selling the 7600 as a router.
If I end up upgrading because of this it will probably be a forklift
upgrade to another platform. And there's no guarantee that it would be a
Cisco one.
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