[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> The 7600 is a 6500, but in a package 'real service providers' can deal 
> with. The 6500 can handle all of the line cards a 7600 can, LAN, WAN, or 
> whatever.

Yes, but they're developed by two different business units, right?

And the 6500, as someone stated, will run CatOS which will not as far 
as I know, support the 7600 WAN cards.

And yes, the business unit cites the 7600 as being able to do what the 
7200/7500 does, including taking most PAs (if you have the right 
linecards, but that's true to for any platform).

And whoever keeps calling the 7600 a "switch" and dismiss it, should just 
as easily call the 12000 an ATM switch, just because it has a cellbased 
backplane. The 7600 business unit tries to do a lot of what the 12000 unit 
does with their WAN linecards. Look at the SIP-600 which will basically do 
everything the new engine5 cards for the GSR does ... at the same price, 
which kind of takes away the reason to switch if you already have GSRs.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se