[c-nsp] 6500 w/sup32 as BGP edge router?

[Tim Stevenson]

At 11:09 AM 2/2/2005, Rutger Bevaart commented:
>thanks everybody for the feedback so far. i have tried to summarize to the
>following points,
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>1) the sup32 software is not ready yet, therefore no routing yet.
>2) rate-limiting etc. uses the same PFC3B that the sup720 does.
>3) routing performance will be slightly less than a sup720 as the MSFC2A
>has less horsepower than the '3 used on the sup720 has.
>4) sup32 is not fabric enabled and thus has less throughput in the end
>(limited to the bus of 32Gbps) then a sup720.
>
>when comparing to a sup720 i'd say that unless the fabric features of the
>sup720 are required use the sup32. they use the same PFC3B, and the sup32
>has only slightly less power routing-wise.
>
>compared to the 7200 router platform i'd say that the sup32 should beat it
>performance-wise by a large margin. or am i mistaken?

There will be an L3 license on sup32 that you'll need to take into account. 
I am not sure of the pricing on this tho. Not sure how that compares with 
7200. Pricing is not my forte.

Tim


>when taking pricing into account the sup32 comes out pretty nice. the
>whole 6503/sup32 combo is about $15K list. a brand-new 7304/NSE or
>7206VXR/NPE-G1 runs $20K...
>
>anybody have any insights comparing this to the 7300 using the NSE?
>
>thanks,
>Rutger
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Technical Marketing Engineer, Catalyst 6500
Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
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