[c-nsp] Cat6500 Sup1440

[Arnold Nipper]

On 18.08.2005 22:31 Justin M. Streiner wrote

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Zahrt, Frank wrote:
> 
>> Our local Cisco SE did not even know about this.
>>
>> Wonder if it'll increase the 10Gig density to something other than 4 per
>> blade.
> 
> I also wonder if migrating to the 6509-E chassis will be required to do 
> that and/or get the full benefits of the Sup1440, assuming it isn't 
> vaporware.

The E-Chassis are merely to support dense PoE blades afaik.

> I seem to recall that the 6509 has a maximum bandwidth of 40 
> Gb/s from each slot onto the backplane.  I could be wrong though...
> 

The backplane is passive. Upgrading the SFM will do the trick.



Arnold
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