[c-nsp] RSP720

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:42:09AM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I know this is a little OT, but does anyone know when the RSP720 will be
> available?  We tried to get pricing, and all we've been told by our Cisco
> sales guy is that it's about the same price range as the SUP720-3BXL.

It's exactly the same price as the SUP720-3B/3BXL according to the list I 
have. I believe its in that magical time period when its on the price 
list and website but not actually shipping, since I don't see code for it 
available to download (change in processor architecture so I would expect 
to see a seperate image for it).

For all those who were asking (myself included), it seems that the offical 
Cisco answer to "will there be a seperately orderable MSFC4 so we can 
upgrade our SUP720s" is "@#$% NO". But since 3B->3C sems to add so very 
little of consequence, and since Cisco has left us disgruntled MSFC3 users 
with such a bad upgrade path, I'm curious to see if you can pop a PFC-3BXL 
from an existing SUP720 onto an RSP720-3C. :)

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