[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Dmitri Kalintsev]

Hi Siva,

No 12.2S (or 12.0S, of course) for 7300. That is not helping much to replace
7200's. And until recently only extremely limited set of PAs was supported
on 7304 vs 7301 (it seem to have improved judging by the URL you gave).
Still, close but no cigar.

SY,
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D.K.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:34:07AM -0700, Siva Valliappan wrote:
> 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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D.K.