[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Siva Valliappan]

Hi Gert,

   the 7300 team recently announced a port adaptor carrier card for
the 7300:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps352/products_data_sheet09186a0080145f58.html

this allows the 7300 to reuse PAs from the 7200/7500.  and you also get
the benefits of additional midplane bandwidth.

the also announced a software forwarding based NPE for the 7300:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps352/products_data_sheet09186a0080174547.html

the NPE-G100.

so this might help meet some of your needs  :)

cheers
.siva

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, 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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