[c-nsp] IOS Modularity

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> SXE is not modularized, SXF will be the first modularized
> release. The reason SXE is so big is the additional code
> required to support the new WAN carriers (SIPs) and SPAs.

Thanks a lot for the clarification.

What is it about those interfaces that you need nearly 25 MB
of extra code to handle them? (I've just checked and IP Services
SSH is approx 74 MB, while the LAN Only counterpart is just 40
MB).

Is it because they're much more programmable, and functionality
isn't carved in ASICs, but needs to be in the IOS image?

Also, the modularity thing seems like a fairly big, fundamental
change, and makes me wonder why you do that in the middle of a
release train. But I guess, with the current numbering scheme,
there wasn't really any other way to do it?

-A