[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Dmitry Valdov]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson 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.
>

This is not true. 
7600 and 6500 has different chassic and marketing position.
Both of them have the same functionality.

With one exception - 7600 chassic doesn't supported by CatOS AFAIK.

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