[nsp] Router sizing

[Mark Prior]

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> Another reason to stay away from the 7300 platform is that it's still
> haunted by a lot of infancy problems. We have had a lot of ISIS, MTU,
> MPLS, CEF and PXF-related bugs since we started using the 7304.
> 
> This is probably related to it being an enterprise platform from the 
> beginning and then all of a sudden a lot of ISPs started using it in 
> different ways than the regular enterprise customer.

Cisco seemed to be pushing it as the next generation ISP edge box, even 
though 12.0S wasn't supported, which is probably more an indication of 
the performance shortcomings of the 7206, even in NPE-G1 form.

Mark.