The higher the number, the faster (more packets-per-second) the card.
The feature side is another dimension (Engine 3 currently is ahead of
others on this, with the 10 1GigE interfaces line-card following; 4+ is
supposed to equal the feature game between 3 and 4).
Unless you are looking for used equipment from dot-bombs or tel-craps,
you should try sticking to 124xx and Engine 3 or 4/4modified/4+.
Although 120xx are still shipping, having 10G backplane is usually a
good thing to give future flexibility, and can cost less at many
configurations (for instance, having a fully-redundant 120xx or 124xx).
3 1GigE card is the only thing that would be Engine 2 for now, but try
buying with no-cost upgrade to Engine 3.
Rubens Kuhl Jr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:41 PM
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] GSR Engine 1/2/3/4? huh?
Hi,
is there a document that explains the difference between "engine 1",
"engine 2", ..., "engine 4" line cards for the GSR?
Is there a simple way to say "this one is better than that one", like
"the higher the number, the better the card"?
gert
-- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de
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