[98989] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Aug 27 23:13:58 2007
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070827181417.B32309@iama.hypergeek.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, John A. Kilpatrick wrote:
> 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.
Where are they saying that? The Sup32 sounded great until it became clear
that it came with PFC3B (not 3BXL), and that there was no upgrade path to
3BXL. If it was/is being sold as a BGP routing solution, it was awfully
short sighted.
> 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
We're in the same boat. According to show catalyst6000, our Sup2's are
doing just fine. If there were a Sup32-3BXL, it'd be more than sufficient
for our needs.
> 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.
I guess cisco wants to play chicken with us and Juniper. Will you really
do the forklift, or just bite the bullet and go Sup720-3BXL? I think
they're better on the latter and counting on a bunch of hardware sales in
the coming months.
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