[nsp] 7500 or 7600

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:58:56AM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > The 7600 is by *far* more powerful than a 7500 - it's a 10 years more
> > recent design.
> 
> Note that he's talking about FlexWAN. This lets you use standard
> 7200/7500 PAs on the 7600.  A FlexWAN is much like a VIP except it
> has two CPUs instead of one - and forwarding is software based just
> like on a VIP.

Yeah, sure.  But for DS3 PA's with nothing unusual on them, even a 
VIP2-50 would do the job :-) - so the bottleneck will not be the
FlexWAN or the VIP, but more the system architecture backing it.

So I'd say it very much depends on "what else" is on the box, like 
"10 GigE links into the core network" or so... 

gert
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