AW: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments

[Mark Walliser]

hello

i wonder if any1 has a 7206VXR/NPE-G1 serving more than 10k sessions in
PRODUCTION (not the test- and/or lab-figures)
if yes, i'd be very intrested in what IOS you're using - and what
configuration/features.

btw: we were using 7206VXR/NPE-400 - no special features enabled, just doing
plain "PPP-in-L2TP-termination" and did not manage terminating more than 4k
sessions (cisco claims 8k)...

that's the reason, why we're interested in "real-life-figures" of the NPE-1
(we've reached 6k - causing around 30% cpuload - no problems so far - but as
history shows, cpuload is not rising linear compared to the number of
sessions, we really doubt being able to do 16k sessions...)

tnx & greetz,
mark


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Andy Schutz (aschutz) [mailto:aschutz at cisco.com] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 00:09
An: 'Charles Sprickman'; cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
Betreff: RE: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments


Charles,

I'm a bit partial considering I work for Cisco but the 7206 with NPE-G1
should at the very minimum be at par with the capabilities of a SMS 1800 (is
that what you are looking at?) if not surpass it.  The 7206 can do the
following which the low-end Redbacks can't:

RA-MPLS
IP QoS
Per-user firewall
16k active sessions
Service Selection
ATM based Dynamic Bandwidth Selection
...

I'm sure I missed some more stuff.  You mentioned that the RB looks more
interesting, what specifically are you referring to?  I have to admit,
sometimes Cisco marketing/product capability definitions aren't as good as
they should be so I can easily see how one might miss a lot of the features
Cisco has.

Hope that helps a bit.

Cheers,

Andy  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-bba-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-bba-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> Charles Sprickman
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I don't want to stir anything up, but is anyone here using Cisco and 
> RedBack side-by-side and willing to compare?
> 
> I'm currently looking at either getting another 7206 or a
> low-end RedBack.
> On paper the RB looks more interesting.  It seems Cisco 
> dropped the 6400.
> If this seems too OT, please reply privately and I'll summarize.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
> 
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> Charles Sprickman
> spork at inch.com
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