[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, MPalis wrote:

> Can anyone state the differences between Cisco 65xx Catalyst Switch and 
> the Cisco 7600 router? What is also the roadmap of both?

The 6500 has only LAN linecards for ethernet (basically), the 7600 
tries to be a replacement for the 7500 router and needs to handle all the 
WAN capabilities of it.

So basically the 7600 inherits all the 6500 linecards and adds Cisco 
7200/7500/12000 "type" linecards to the same chassi.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se