[c-nsp] Recommended P Nodes

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:27:37PM +0000, Gordon Bryan wrote:
> Current thought process is steering me towards hardware-based platforms 
> such as the 7600/6500 with Sup720-3BXL as they'll be mainly responsible for 
> labelling/unlabelling/shifting packets and I'm keen on the performance 
> that these boxes deliver. Plus their scalability to 10Gb and beyond 
> is another tick in the box. Anyone using these models in the core?

6500, definitely :-) - no XL needed if this is a pure P with no full table.

Where the 6500 with Sup720 lacks is edge things (IPv6 uRPF, full netflow, 
IPv6 ACLs) and scalability to "huge" amounts of 10G - but as a P node,
you don't need the edge things, and if "some 100 Gbit/s" is good enough for
you, it will do what you want.

gert
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