RE: Need some competitive analysis between a Nortel Passport 15000 and Cisco 7500

From: Frank Bruce (fbruce@cisco.com)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 13:59:22 EST


Have a look at the 10000 ESR, the optimum aggregation box from us at this
time.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/rt/10000/
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/10000.htm

Regards

Frank Bruce
Consulting SE, NSP West
Cisco Systems Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: rkuhljr@uol.com.br [mailto:rkuhljr@uol.com.br]
Sent: 10 February 2001 09:21
To: PJGreene@infotechent.net
Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re:Need some comptetive analysis between a Nortel Passport
15000 and Cisco 7500

>>I need some analysis as to why a client of mine should use a couple Cisco
>7500 over a Nortel Passport 15000 for Layer 3 and BGP routing. Any and all
>feedback is welcome. Everything I know of the Passport makes it a great
>Layer 2 device but not high end Layer 3. I have also heard that Nortel is
>teaming with Juniper for trying to win high-end Layer-3 engagements.

Don't put any money on Cisco 7500s; they cost more for every
performance/price figure you might consider.

I don't know about Passport 15000, but Nortel Versalar 15000 was a pretty
good router, basically an ASIC implementation of the Nortel/Bay/Wellfleet
BLN/BCN boxes. As it vanished from Nortel site, may be it has been merged
into Passport or died because of Juniper agreement; BLN/BCN/Versalar L3
features were very good, including a BGP implementation that outperformed
Cisco's for many years.

If you need IPX, consider Cisco OSR (Cat 6K+FlexWAN cards) or Nortel's
options; IP only, jump to Juniper M5/M10 without thinking twice.

Rubens Kuhl Jr.



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