[c-nsp] 7304 impressions

[dxz107 at gmail.com]

Thanks for the feedback everyone - it's much appreciated.  On my
network the the 7304 would have protocols/features to deal with that
are not in PXF.  So that's why I was leaning towards the generic G1
processor.

My main motivation for the 7304 is to aggregate several OC3s & DS3s.  
The 7200/NPE-G1 runs out of points fast when one piles in OC3 cards
and the offered  DS3 density is poor. The 7300's 6x clear channel DS3
is attractive.

Tarko, can you tell me more about your troubles with the 7200 PA
carrier card for the 7304 ?  I was actually counting on being able to
use it.



On Apr 6, 2005 3:08 PM, Tarko Tikan <tarko at starman.ee> wrote:
> hi!
> 
> > The 7304 seems to only support 12.2S trains. So software options are a
> > little limited.   Impressions on stability, performance, anything else
> > ?  We're leaning towards the NPE-G100 engine (this thing is G1 based,
> > right?).  The 3.5 pps offered by the NSE engine is nice on paper, but
> > I don't think I'd want to deal with PXF.
> 
> I've replaced some of the 7200VXRs with 7304 boxes. Don't choose NPE-G100
> because this is the same processor as NPE-G1 so performance is exactly the
> same as 7200VXR with NPE-G1. All my boxes are NSE based and PXF is not that
> bad at all.
> 
> Ofc you don't want to use any of the features that are not PXF based (for
> example policy routing). My boxes are all with onboard gigabits and STM-4 POS
> ports and work fine. I use them as network edge boxes to peer with other
> providers. So basically only routing, BGP, OSPF, some acl's, no rate-limits,
> no QOS etc. I have tested the port adapters which take VXR PA's and they
> don't work :) I haven't tested these new interface aggregators that take 2
> gigabits etc. per 1 slot in 7304 box.
> 
> In my opinion, 7304 is OK box but only with NSE processor. In my network, I
> don't want to replace these boxes but nowdays I would choose vendor-J boxes
> like M7i or M10i for this kind of application.
> 
> --
> tarko
>