[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Joe McGuckin]

How many BGP views can this take? Weren't there earlier performance issues
with TCAM exhaustion problems?



On 7/12/05 11:45 PM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> 
>>> 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).
>> 
>> Phooey.
>> 
>> FlexWAN stinks, and the 6500/7600 can't do a bunch of stuff that the 7500 can
>> (L2TPv3, L2TPv3/Martini interworking, etc.). The 6500/7600 makes an elite
>> packet pusher (gigs and gigs and gigs -- I know of sup2/msfc2 boxes doing 10
>> gigs and not really complaining), but is seriously lacking in features for
>> the whacky stuff that some SP's do; the 7200/7500 fills this gap, but at
>> speeds of 100 megs or less.
> 
> Well, you got me there. We don't do L2TP at all, I see tunnels over IP for
> bulk packet path as inherently flawed way of doing business. Much more
> expensive than just routing them.

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