[c-nsp] Replacing 7513 with 6509?

[Matthew Crocker]

 From my understanding you'll probably want to upgrade to a Sup720 which 
will require new fans and new power supplies.  The Sup720 seems to have 
all of the features you would need.   Last week there was a discussion 
about stability problems with 6509/7609 with Sup720s running MPLS.   I 
think the software for the sup720 is also released after the GSR & RSP 
versions.

-Matt

On Aug 25, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:

> Heya,
>
> I'm pretty familiar with the 7500 series, however I'm know quite 
> little about the architecture of the 6500s. We have some 7513s 
> currently doing straight IP connections, L3 MPLS VPNs and EoMPLS 
> (L2VPNs) via trunked ethernet to 6500s. These 6500s have Sup1a and 
> MSFC2s.
>
> I'm trying to find out, but www.cisco.com gives mixed reports, whether 
> we can upgrade these 6500s to a Native IOS code and remove the 7513s 
> from the equation and carry on running these L3 MPLS VPNs and EoMPLS. 
> We need to give some customers full feeds - is this a problem (what's 
> the max memory on a Sup1a)?
>
> How do the 6509s fare with this many features? I havn't historically 
> been a fan of the Cisco Switch/Routers because of bugs and limited 
> features, but I'm willing to be convinced that the 6509s could be a 
> reasonable platform for this:-)
>
> Any IOS recommendations aswell?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Cheers,
> Chris.
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