[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Jason Lixfeld]

Cat6500 with the PA blades will do that.  Although the footprint is 
bigger; maybe the lesser of two evils, depending.

Do the Cat4000s take the PA blades as well , ooc?

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 4:09 PM, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:12:53PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>> VXRs are godly!
>
> They still have a limit of 600 bandwidth points per bus, which can be
> reached quite quickly if you have no NPE-G1, two FastEs on the IO 
> board,
> and some OC3 interfaces.
>
> I'm personally hoping for a "VXR++" chassis that has no "two busses"
> architecture anymore, but something like a crossbar fabric with a
> dedictated PCI "bus" per slot... saving PA investments (unlike the 
> 7300)
> and still boosting the throughput.
>
> But I think this depends on whether Cisco sales or Cisco tech people
> decide.
>
> gert
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