[nsp] NSE-1 vs. NPE-400

[Arie Vayner]

if you can manage with 3 GigE ports + 1 PA slot, than look at 7301. It is 
NPE-G1 in 1U form factor

Arie


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Temkin, David wrote:

> I understand that, but the NPE-G1 isn't available used generally and it's
> out of the price range for the current project I'm working on new.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:14 PM
> To: Temkin, David
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] NSE-1 vs. NPE-400
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:47:02PM -0400, Temkin, David wrote:
> > Just a quick question to anyone- search results on this have been 
> > pretty slim.
> > 
> > Which am I better off with in an environment with large ACL's and two 
> > full BGP feeds, the NSE-1 or NPE-400?  The NSE-1 is still more 
> > expensive than the NPE-400 (though used it depends)...  I understand 
> > the "accelerated" services that the NSE-1 gives you, but does that 
> > take enough load off of the processor to make it a better bet than the 
> > NPE-400?
> 
> You might also want to take the NPE-G1 into consideration.  That's a real
> great one - super fast, and comes with 3 onboard GigE interfaces.
> 
> Caveat: requires 12.1E or 12.2S, but 12.2S is well-beahving for us.
> 
> Caveat2: 12.2S has counter bugs.  But not-so-severe ones.
> 
> gert
>