RE: [nsp] What is VXR

From: KF (kf@reign.sk)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 04:48:23 EST


cable modems...

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:08 PM
To: kf@reign.sk; 'Birsen Ozturk'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] What is VXR

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:51:20PM +0100, KF wrote:
> VXR have TDM between PCI busses... there is big significant when bandwidth hungry PA's want to switch packets over this buses.

AFAIR the TDM bus is only there for switching "time division" things,
that's ISDN DS0's etc.

The main difference performancewise is that the PCI bus can go faster
in the VXRs (which causes incompatibilities for old revisions of certain
PAs).

gert

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