[nsp] GSR engine types?

[Jared Mauch]

Something that Cisco GSR group seems to not have learned from it's 
competitors is to re-release the same port density linecards but with 
the "rich edge" feature set.  Juniper (and others) have released 
enhanced versions of their hardware (such as the Q-Pic series hardware) 
that has a far more rich set of features and works in their products.  
Some require the E-FPC instead of the FPC, but they did think "Now that 
we have our line rate module to do time-to-market, lets make sure we 
try to get this right".  Doesn't mean they hit the mark, but it does 
show that they have tried.  I think it's important to take note of this 
and any competitors in the 'core space' that do truly understand that 
hardware does move from the core to the edge and there need to be ways 
to handle basic security features (acl, etc..) without creating a 
product that is so expensive that it's cheaper to retrain everyone to a 
new vendor..

	- jared

On Jan 11, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:

>
> Too bad (if this document is complete) that so called "edge features" 
> still
> aren't available on 3-port GigE cards (with Engine 3, it could support 
> 2
> GigE at wire speed), requiring one to buy a 10-port GigE card. It 
> seems like
> a good selling point for Cisco 7600 (and Juniper M- series).
>
>
> Rubens
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley at dunn.org>
> To: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex at nac.net>
> Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [nsp] GSR engine types?
>
>
>> Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>>> I am looking around (yes, searched CCO and google) for a 'cheat 
>>> sheet',
> if
>>> you will, which maps cisco part numbers to engine type for GSR line
> cards.
>>
>> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/63/arch12000-lcdesign.html
>>
>> Bradley
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