[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com]

>Accroding to one Cisco SE that I spoke to, 6500 and 7600 are identical
... at the moment. There is a possibility that they may start developing
different IOS trains for each sometime in the future. However, being
exact same hardware, I don't see it happening.

 I can't comment on this. But there are two different business units
handling it - one, seems to deal with enterprise a great deal and the other
with carriers and ILEC types. Having two different IOS train codes could
enable them to roll out features faster if they don't have to maintain
support for every single feature the other group wants.

 ie: if they diverge and we're all stuck with a spares population we can't
use, we only have those folks who insisted that a 7600 was better than a
6500 to blame. Cisco didn't need to rebadge until it realised that your
typical WAN guy sneered at the word 'catalyst'. And a lot of those guys
I've spken to, and explained that they were the same box *still* wanted the
7600. *sigh*.



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