[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Dmitri Kalintsev]

By the way, how close is 12.2(14)SZ to the 12.2(14)S?

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:28:57AM +1000, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
> 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.
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