[c-nsp] GigE cards for 6509

Temkin, David temkin at sig.com
Thu Oct 14 16:30:02 EDT 2004


It connects to the 32Gbps shared bus, and there's no distributed
forwarding.  You can get the full 32Gbps out of the card I believe but
obviously that's significantly oversubscribed. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:08 PM
> To: Dave Breiland
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] GigE cards for 6509
> 
> That's good to know.. anyone know the actual card throughput 
> on the 6148 card?  Tried to find it online but haven't found 
> anything useful yet...
> this card (either the 16 port GigE or 48 port 10/100/1000) 
> won't be taxed at all but it's nice to know you won't run out 
> neither..:)
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:05, Dave Breiland wrote:
> > I am guessing it relates, but my experience is with the older GIG/ 
> > GBIC cards.  You could buy 8 port and 16 port versions.  
> The problem 
> > was that they both had the same amount of ASICs.  As such, 
> your ports 
> > will have less dedicated bandwidth, on the 16 port version.
> > 
> > Just my cents of knowledge...
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> > [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stewart
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:55 PM
> > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [c-nsp] GigE cards for 6509
> > 
> > We need some more GigE cards for our 6509.  I contacted our 
> supplier 
> > today and was told that a WS-X6316-GE-TX 16 port copper GigE card 
> > (which we already have one of and need another) is MORE 
> money than a 
> > WS-X6148-GE-TX card which has 48 10/100/1000 ports on it.
> > 
> > I'd be crazy not to buy a 6148 card it looks like... is there any 
> > catches that I should know of?  This seems too easy..;)
> > 
> > We use these cards to connect servers but also run some basic QOS 
> > functions and Dot1Q trunking on some interfaces...
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
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